Merit should be the only basis for recruitment

The issue of positive discrimination is always a hot potato (Personnel Today, 7 February). There appears to be an increasing trend where white men are being deselected from recruitment processes or from succession planning because organisations are trying to enforce a balanced workforce policy.

Any organisation, let alone the police force, must select on merit alone.

I experienced age discrimination with a former employer and was deselected for a role because I did not fit the ethnic/gender balance policy.

Why not make selection a blind process by having all references to name, gender, age, religion and ethnic background removed from CVs to make recruitment as fair as possible?

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Graeme Blundell
IT programme manager,
University College for the Creative Arts