| Overview: Selection and recruitment is severely hampered if we are blinkered about the kind of people who can do a job. This is often the case when a certain type of person, say a middle-aged man in an executive position, or a part-time female in an unskilled position, has done a job for a long time and done it well. When the time comes to replace them, we believe that only the same type of person will do. Blinkered selection is limited selection and potentially discriminatory as well. When we discriminate against candidates because of who they are, rather than because of what they can do, we seriously restrict our choices, harm our business and offend candidates. The only kind of discrimination in recruitment and selection should be discrimination in favour of those who can do the job. |
