Are There Certain Pc Boxes That Need Ticking So As To Get A Job At The Bbc?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2698021/Are-gay-Parents-benefits-The-ludicrously-PC-questions-asked-want-work-BBC.html

Why is it important for the BBC to know if you are gay or not, what is the religion or if you are an Atheist, if during their school years, their parents received income support and whether they received free school meals. etc etc.

[Zacs-Master]

Because it's a good example of a company disappearing up its own chuff trying to comply with PC.

[factor-fiction]

Every job I have applied for in the last 10 years has had a Equal Ops/Diversity questionnaire- it's separated (they always say) from the application and analysed separately

[Zacs-Master]

Yeah....right.

[Gromit]

It is not just the BBC, it is mandatory where public money is being used to employ people. The people the state employs should be respresentative of the population at large. You can old find out if that is being achieved if you ask the questions. So if it is found the BBC is over represented in some areas, too many gays, too many religious types, then something can be done to redress the balance.

The gathering of such information also enables newspapers to run crappy stories by deliberately misreading the results.

[Mosaic]

In my experience the main requirement for working in any branch of the BBC was not really needing the money, as they seemed to pay peanuts for most staff.

[Canary42]

It's not just the BBC who ask these sort of questions - but of course the Daily Wail denigrates it's more reasonable rival at every opportunity.

More to the point, Why is it important to the Daily Wail how the BBC sifts job applicants - how does the Wail do it - I think we should be told.

[New Judge]

"Why is it important to the Daily Wail how the BBC sifts job applicants.."

I suppose it's because the BBC receives some £3bn each year from a compulsory subscription paid by all TV owners regardless of whether they watch the BBC or not. That esteemed organ may believe that its readers might be interested to know how that sum is spent. People unhappy about how the Daily Mail undertakes its recruitment need simply to refrain from buying the newspaper. They don't pay to support the Mail if they buy the Morning Star.

As has been said, this nonsense is not confined to the BBC. I undertake some voluntary work supporting people who undergo, sometimes, quite harrowing ordeals. At the end of our dealings with the client we ask them to complete a survey about how they view the support provided by the organisation. However, more than 50% of the questions are designed to establish exactly the sort of thing this question refers to. e.g. "What is your gender?" "Is that the gender you were assigned at birth?" (their words, not mine). "Are you Gay/Heterosexual/Bisexual/Prefer not to answer?" You get the idea, I'm sure.

It is, we are told, to ensure we are treating all our clients in the same way. When asked how many complaints the organisation had received from people claiming they had not been treated correctly because of their gender/ethnicity/sexual preference etc., nobody knew. But nobody could ever recall receiving such a complaint.

These are "belt and braces" "gold plating" procedures which organisations undertake to show they have a functional diversity policy. The BBC is one of the foremost proponents of such procedures and only this week they published target figures for the number of staff (including actors) they aimed to emply from each of the minorities. It's utter nonsense and it's strangling the life out of the country unnecessarily.