Build a more diverse team for your charity and understand how to elevate your recruitment strategy with our new FREE equal opportunities reporting.
What is equal opportunities reporting?
Equal opportunities reporting (sometimes known as a diversity monitoring) helps you track the diversity of your applicant pool and compare it to those that you hire. This information is crucial for identifying any potential bias in your recruitment process and taking informed steps to address it.
What information does CharityJob’s equal opportunities form collect?
Our short, anonymous form gathers demographic data from candidates when they create a CharityJob account or at the point of application. Our form covers gender identity, age, disability, ethnic group, sexual orientation, religious beliefs and socio-economic background.
We’ll only require candidates to complete the form if the recruiter has requested it. And their data will stay completely anonymous during the hiring process.
Here’s what the form looks like to a candidate:
What will I see as a recruiter?
Once you’ve posted at least one role using equal opportunities reporting and received at least five applications (for a single role or across multiple roles), you’ll gain access to an anonymised ‘Applications diversity’ report. The report shows the demographic profile of your applicants. If you’ve posted multiple roles, you can use the filter option to include specific jobs in tailored diversity reports.
Once you’ve posted at least three jobs using equal opportunities reporting and marked at least one candidate as ‘Hired’ for each of them, you’ll gain access to an anonymised report showing the profile of your applicants versus those you’ve hired. This helps identify any gaps in your recruitment strategy.
How to enable the tool and view reports
Using our equal opportunities reporting tool is simple. Here’s how you can get started:
Post a job with us using the CharityJob Apply application method: When creating a job post, select ‘CharityJob Apply’ as your application method.
Enable the tool during job posting: Then, under ‘Application method’ select ‘Yes’ to 'Would you like candidates to complete our equal opportunities form?'
View your reports: Click ‘More’ and then ‘Equal opportunities report’. Here, you’ll see an ‘Applications diversity’ report, showing the demographic profile of your applicants. Once you’ve met the requirements (at least three jobs with a candidate marked as ‘Hired’), an ‘Applications vs. hires’ report will also be available, showing the profile of those you’ve hired.
Why use it?
It saves you time: Our tool automatically collects and analyses the data all in one place (when you choose to use it). No more distributing forms, manual data entry, or analysis. You can use the saved time to act on your findings.
Understand your pipeline: Learn about who you’re currently attracting in terms of demographics and where there might be gaps.
Compare the diversity of applicants vs hires: See if there’s a mismatch between those you’re attracting and those you’re hiring.
Identify areas for improvement: Use the findings to build an inclusive, data-driven recruitment process.
To find out more about the benefits of using our equal opportunities reporting to drive your recruitment strategy, read our blog.
A note about the tool
We created this tool because we're passionate about fairer recruitment in charities. However, collecting demographic data is complex and there's no one-size-fits-all approach. So we recognise that our tool has some limitations.
While we hope it works for your charity, we understand each charity's needs are unique. We welcome your feedback on the form and the tool. We'll keep developing it based on input from you and from candidates.