Not deliberate. Recruiters I have met are decent, honest folk who play by the book, but if the chief officer and his entourage keep dberating your manager who in turn gives it you to deliver on targets that are close to impossible, what should they do? Come to work under that consrant pressure or have smiley faces at work by trying new stuff and perhaps crossing the line?
I think the problem in recruiting is that tghey are bufered from pillar to post by changes in what the 'top landing' wants and have never sat down and thought it through. For example, their marketing is too broad, they see any blackl or female applicant as a good applicant in helping meet targets. In fact what they need are good black and ethnic minority/female candidates, not ANY. For example they put adverts in job centres and local papers. What kind of people read job centre ads and local paper vacancies? I worked with one private sector companty who target specific groups within specific university courses through the careers office and through tutors, to identify the very best BEM candidates and put the job application in their hand after they have been given an insight to the job and have shown some interest. Result: top rate, motivated candidates who have a higher than usual success rate.
