this law, which dates from 2017, is still not well known

Tuesday, March 21 is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. A law, which dates from January 27, 2017, is directly related to this day. This is the Equality and Citizenship law and it notably makes training in non-discrimination in hiring compulsory for all recruitment professionals in companies with more than 300 employees.

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The Adecco Group in partnership with Ipsos wanted to know how this law was applied. As a result, no less than 40% of recruiters and human resources managers say they have never heard of this law. Which means that some others have formed. 45% of people surveyed said they had taken at least one training course in non-discrimination when hiring and among them, a very large majority, 84%, considered it useful. Better still, more than two thirds, 69%, say they have changed their recruitment practices.

Know-how in the face of discrimination

The study takes the year 2017, the date of passage of this law, as a point of comparison. In six years, the anonymous CV has made a place for itself in the recruitment process. He won 11 points and is now present in no less than one in five recruitments.

Another practice has developed: that of collective recruitment, when several recruiters receive the same candidate. The practice has gained seven points in six years. Job dating, when recruiters travel to meet candidates, is also up nine points.

The study also highlights the virtues of these anti-discrimination trainings. The fact of having followed this type of training strengthens the ability to identify discrimination and the ability to combat it. 42% of people who have taken training in recruiting without discrimination say they have witnessed discrimination and 90% say they know how to deal with it. While only 15% of the others, those who have not been trained, say they have encountered situations of discrimination. The better we know, the more we identify.