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Job boards are reaching a more ethnically diverse audience and are more representative of the general population, a gathering of recruiters heard.
Alastair Cartwright, commercial director at Enhance Media, producers of the National Recruitment Online Annual Survey (NORAS) told recruiters at an eFianancialCareers.com-hosted event that this was an important factor for employers who wanted to increase workplace diversity.
Cartwright presented figures that showed that while 4% of the general population were Asian and 2% Black, according to 2001 data, the corresponding figure for online jobseekers was 5% for both groups. It is similar for people of Chinese, mixed and other ethnic backgrounds.
Job boards help reach more ethnically diverse candidates
Published: 11 July 2007
Alastair Cartwright, commercial director at Enhance Media, producers of the National Recruitment Online Annual Survey (NORAS) told recruiters at an eFianancialCareers.com-hosted event that this was an important factor for employers who wanted to increase workplace diversity.
Cartwright presented figures that showed that while 4% of the general population were Asian and 2% Black, according to 2001 data, the corresponding figure for online jobseekers was 5% for both groups. It is similar for people of Chinese, mixed and other ethnic backgrounds.
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