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Blind recruitment

Meaning in job interviews & careers, with examples

nounCommon term

In job interviews & careers, blind recruitment means: Recruitment that removes identifying personal details from material assessed at a selection stage.

In Turkish: kimlik bilgileri gizlenerek işe alım

How it is used

Use when personal identifiers are removed; specify which selection stage is anonymized.

Example sentences

  1. Blind recruitment removed names from the applications before the first review.

    Anonymity applies to the material being judged at that stage.

  2. The company explained that blind recruitment ended when candidates reached interview.

    Removing names initially does not make every later interaction anonymous.

Common collocations

  • use blind recruitment
  • blind recruitment process
  • applicationA formal request for a job, or the set of documents and forms you send to an employer when you make that request.
  • shortlistTo choose a small number of the best applicants from everyone who applied, so that they can be invited to an interview.

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