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http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl >> News and Comment >> New recruitment policy http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1461880557 Message started by Administrator on Apr 28^th, 2016, 9:56pm

Title: New recruitment policy
Post by Administrator on Apr 28^th, 2016, 9:56pm

According to the BBC News site, here,

"Staff joining the BBC will be asked about their socio-economic background, as part of a bid to increase diversity at the corporation.
Candidates will be asked if they were entitled to free school meals, and if their parents attended university."

Title: Re: New recruitment policy
Post by double-vision on Apr 30^th, 2016, 2:31pm

Instead of "diversity" it should read "to enable further dumbing down." How on earth is asking if a person received free school meals or not going to select the best candidate for the darn post?
Dave.

Title: Re: New recruitment policy
Post by chris west on Apr 30^th, 2016, 6:37pm

I would love one of the wonks who devise this sort of stuff to sit down and define "socio-economic background". A meaningless and therefore irrelevant phrase if ever I heard one. In my 25 years at the BBC I cannot recall that my ability to work with people was coloured by my upbringing or theirs.

Title: Re: New recruitment policy
Post by Roundabout on Apr 30^th, 2016, 10:27pm

Well said Chris...totally agree.