Center for Corporate Auditing, Responsibility and Management policy Authoring/Anonymous applications policy

—Citizenship Foundation

Introduction
Tests have shown that anonymous applications improve the chances of women and minorities to get job interviews.

Anonymity

 * 1) The pre-selection process for anonymous applications has to follow a certified process chain, use well-defined criteria and should preferably be implemented by a certified external service provider.
 * 2) The full anonymity of an applicant should preferably be maintained until the time of the job interview.

Continuing education

 * 1) The employer should emphasize gender equality and racial equality in educational measures.
 * 2) The employer should ensure equal opportunity for access to educational measures.
 * 3) Anonymous applications for some educational measures are recommended and can be implemented by certified external service providers.

Gender equality

 * 1) The employer has to provide well-defined procedures for how to accomplish gender equality and well-defined criteria for when gender equality has been accomplished.

Racial equality

 * 1) The employer has to provide well-defined procedures for how to accomplish racial equality and well-defined criteria for when racial equality has been accomplished.

Corporate citizenship

 * 1) The employer must endorse gender equality and racial equality as official goals of the company. Failure to do so should be seen as a complete failure to implement this policy.
 * 2) The employer should set an example and implement a transparent process with an option for co-determination.