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TREDNS? Discussion? Accor to stop hiring check-in staff based on looks

Accor, has decided to anonymise CVs submitted to its French careers website, removing applicants’ first and last names, nationality, sex, age and e-mail address.


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The company says that the decision is to “ensure that the initial selection of candidates is uniquely based on the applicant’s training, experience and skills” and “provides testimony to Accor’s engagement on the subject of diversity”.

It says: “The objective of the anonymous CV is to avoid any discrimination, conscious or subconscious, linked to the age, sex or origins of the candidate.”

EDITOR| What do you think? Will the face crop up at the one-on-one interview? Do you think this even makes sense? Do we need good looking people behind the counter? Leave your comments












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