Ok this is one for you all to have a go at.

Recently 4 jobs have come up for me to apply for in 3 different organisations.

1st application organisation A – no response. Contact organisation, sorry lost your application, send through again. Which I did, no response, emailed again and got no further contact.

2nd application organisation B – interview confirmed.

3rd application organisation C – Interview Confirmed.

4th application organisation A – no response, Contact organisation, not shortlisted. Emailed organisation, wouldnt give a reason why not succesful at attaining interview.

Applications 1, 3 & 4 are for a very similar job to what I do now, 2 is for a higher grade job.

Read in to it what you like but knowing where organisation A is, and who works there already I know as a white person I would be in a minority…

Go on flame me 🙂

Huh? How’s that positive? Surely it would be ‘positive discrimination’ if they gave you job because you were white, not because they ignored you?

Perhaps, and I’m going to go out on a limb here, you’re just not suitable for that job.

as a white person I would be in a minority

Positive Discrimination would give YOU (being the only honky) the job.

What you meant to say is you think you were discriminated against because of your colour.

“Positive discrimination is regarded as the preferential treatment of members of a minority group over a majority group, either by sex, race, age, marital status or sex orientation. It is generally considered illegal and unlawful.”

Ok take your point, should I say I have been on the receiving arm of positive discrimination… is that ok?

and yes perhaps njee20

Go on flame me

no sport in that, like shooting fish in a barrel.

Is this thread for real?

Are you JHW?

Ok take your point, should I say I have been on the receiving arm of positive discrimination… is that ok?

Nope – if you are saying the majority there are non white you become the minority to be discriminated against – positive discrimination would be giving you the job.

If its what yo claim – and I very much doubt it- it would be simple discrimination

Looks like you had a lucky escape then. Imagine actually having to work alongside them.

Did you have to put ethnicity on the application form?

wouldnt give a reason why not succesful at attaining interview.

As an employer I would never tell people why I hadn’t interviewed them and often why they didn;t get a job.

Just gives people ammunition for law suits then they find out they were in the pile of cv’s from ‘unlucky people’…

Ok.

Can someone show me to the either the religious or the political thread now, please.

“Imagine actually having to work alongside them.”

Oh was waiting for that one 🙂

“Did you have to put ethnicity on the application form?” – Yes

Ok perhaps I should just say discriminated against then….I wouldnt mind that I was good enough to get interview, but its just the lack of any real reasoning etc.

Mibbe you’re just crap and they’re trying not to hurt your feelings?

just the lack of any real reasoning

Not uncommon.

druidh – Member
Looks like you had a lucky escape then. Imagine actually having to work alongside them.

Actual lol at that.

“Did you have to put ethnicity on the application form?” – Yes

Reapply, but this time tell them that you is black. Then you’ll know for sure.

Just put ‘I am funky’ on the form, you’ll be fine.

Ok so its nothing to do with discrimination then, just they are a really shite co. and can not organise a pee up in a brewery, perphaps thats how I should look at it then.

Did the application form ask “can you jump?”

or sing the blues?

Maybe organisation A already have someone internally that they would like to use, but have still the obligation of advertising the vacancy in the outside world?

In which case, they wouldn’t tell you why not….

WHy is the company shite? Because they didn’t give you a job?

Bloody racists! 🙂

Should have gone through a recruitment agent.

Sometimes they just don’t like you.