HR Tip: Sex discrimination

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HR Tip:
No, you are not. You may well not be discriminating deliberately, but the very fact that no girls apply suggests that there is something wrong with your recruitment process. Look at how you recruit and consider whether you do enough to attract girls. Why not contact local schools and send someone along to describe the attractions of engineering? Put in your advertisements "applications from female candidates would be particularly welcomed".

Put an advert in the local paper, or even better persuade the editor to write a feature, in the hope of attracting older females who have a few years experience, understand better what they really want, and accordingly make more diligent trainees. Do the best you can and certainly show evidence that you are trying to attract females.

You should not subsequently give female candidates preferential treatment, but pick the best candidates, be they male or female. By attracting trainees of both genders you are widening your field of choice and almost certainly attracting more good candidates.

Previous HR and Payroll tips:

May 2007
Fixed term contracts
Return from maternity leave

April 2007
Sex discrimination
Deductions from wages
Custom and practice
Disclosing employees' birthdays

March 2007
Making notes in disciplinary proceedings
Discipline and the police
Analysing poor performance
Resignation in a temper
Implied terms of contract

February 2007
Issuing contracts of employment
Unfair and wrongful dismissal
Bullying boss
Persistent absentees

January 2007
Confidential witness statements
Ending a fixed term contract

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