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

Employers should use it to inform their recruiting efforts, not base hiring decisions on. If they are focused or diversity, they can see if they are getting applicants from diverse populations or only from a few and then modify efforts to get a wider variety of applicants. They also use it to report later on diversity of staff that are employed.