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Thomas Shaw is the Founder and Managing Director of Recruitment Directory, which is an online directory of talent providers and systems across Australia & New Zealand. It also provides consulting services to Recruitment Agencies, Job Boards and Employers on 5 key areas such as Talent Sourcing, On Boarding, Workforce Management, Employee Engagement and Management Systems.

With both a IT and HR background, Thomas has recently created various social networking applications and creating recruitment strategies integrating Web 2.0 tools into daily recruitment use. Previously, he has worked as an IT Recruitment Consultant across leading financial organisations, before beginning his career in Organisational Development. For more information please visit http://www.recruitmentdirectory.com.au



Recruitment Directory Please select your gender
7:04pm Monday 13 April 2009 - Recruitment Directory

Last week, a mid-size Australian company updated the job application form with an extra gender selection. The company specialises in Accounting, Insolvency and Financial Planning.It got me thinking... Do we really need to know what the gender of the candidate when they apply for a job? Certainly for some roles it may be necessary and the employer should clarify the job advertisement with an exemption notice from the relevant authority.But it dose open the possibility of discrimination towards the job seeker.



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