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"Nobody responded to Catherine Bayoudhi when she applied for jobs in late 2022.
She had been a hairdresser for 35 years and had no experience in other
vocations. After she was forced to leave her job during the pandemic, she
joined the UK government’s Restart Scheme for people unemployed for nine months
or more. But when not a single offer materialized, she began to worry that, at
56, employers were discriminating against her because of her age.
“Nothing seemed to come my way,” Bayoudhi says. “I started to get disheartened,
even though I knew I was more than capable of being an asset to anyone’s
business. I’ve been told that so many times at the job center, but I wasn’t
getting the employment.”
Just as Bayoudhi was giving up hope, a job center informed her about a seasonal
job opening as a customer assistant at The Body Shop. Without requesting a CV
or cover letter, the application asked only three questions:
Do you have the
right to work in the UK? Can you work for up to eight hours in a shift? Can you
carry loads of 11 kilograms?
This “no resumé, no references” approach reflects The Body Shop’s “open hiring”
process, which
Reasons to be Cheerful wrote about in March 2020 after the
company first implemented it. Now, three years later, as open hiring begins to
catch on more widely, The Body Shop has shared internal data with
RTBC
showing the success of the approach."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
