Unsucessful at shortlisting stage would like feedback

surveyqueenuk

Fireflyaway wrote: »

Not nice but some applications might not be shortlisted due to the recruiting officers own prejudice! I have seen people not be short listed due to age, foreign sounding names etc. Yes that's illegal but it happens and they will never admit it!

This is purely anecdotal but I have heard of business owners who refuse to hire younger women who haven't had children as they expect them to need one or two rounds of maternity leave/pay in the future.

PenguinOfDeath

surveyqueenuk wrote: »

This is purely anecdotal but I have heard of business owners who refuse to hire younger women who haven't had children as they expect them to need one or two rounds of maternity leave/pay in the future.

Yes and while I can see this from the employers POV it's totally unfair on this of us who are unlikely to need it.

surveyqueenuk

PenguinOfDeath wrote: »

Yes and while I can see this from the employers POV it's totally unfair on this of us who are unlikely to need it.

Well, quite. It's a horrible blanket assumption that all women either want children or are capable of having them.

Savvy_Sue

surveyqueenuk wrote: »

This is purely anecdotal but I have heard of business owners who refuse to hire younger women who haven't had children as they expect them to need one or two rounds of maternity leave/pay in the future.

Well, shared parental leave is going to be a nasty shock then, isn't it? Especially as men can father children so much longer than women can bear them ...

PenguinOfDeath

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Well, shared parental leave is going to be a nasty shock then, isn't it? Especially as men can father children so much longer than women can bear them ...

Indeed, but the 9 months of appointments and sickness before the birth won't affect the father, and the post birth issues and looking after the child when it's inevitably ill generally speaking fall to the mother.

Malthusian

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Well, shared parental leave is going to be a nasty shock then, isn't it?

Not really as dads don't take it.

Even in beacons of social enlightenment like Sweden, paternal leave is nicknamed "moose hunting leave".

Savvy_Sue

PenguinOfDeath wrote: »

Indeed, but the 9 months of appointments and sickness before the birth won't affect the father, and the post birth issues and looking after the child when it's inevitably ill generally speaking fall to the mother.

Fathers have the right to attend antenatal appointments these days!

I know it's unusual for men to do this. However, the boundaries ARE shifting, just the fact that it's possible means employers should be waking up to the legal realities.