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

It’s for government reporting requirements in most cases. From what I’ve seen with applicant tracking systems, I cannot see the answers to those questions when reviewing their profile/resume. It might be somewhere else but it’s not something I can see or factor in when deciding who to interview.