If applications have diversity goals, and ask for your demographic, how can they claim that your response won’t subject you to adverse treatment/ affect your application? Aren’t your demographics taken into direct consideration when targeting those diversity goals, either for better or worse?

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If applications have diversity goals, and ask for your demographic, how can they claim that your response won’t subject you to adverse treatment/ affect your application? Aren’t your demographics taken into direct consideration when targeting those diversity goals, either for better or worse?

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Answer 1

The demographic questions aren’t for making hiring decisions; they’re for analysing later to see if the hiring process is biased. An unbiased process should result in hiring demographics that match the general population; if they don’t match, you can start investigating why.