Equal opportunity questionnaire on forms for a British company?

[shanrina]

Hi, all. I'm filling out a form for a job with a British organization, and there's a huge section on it with questions about disabilities, race/ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. I'd really rather not fill this out because I object to being asked, but I'm used to seeing great big "You don't have to fill this out" notifications for this

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[wood_elf]

On most of the council/local govt type forms I've filled out, they give you a 'unwilling to disclose' option for sexual orientation at least (which I usually pick; even if I'm married that's not really their business). If no option supplied you should just be able to write it in the 'other' box. Shouldn't affect your chances at all, they just use the forms to monitor that the recruitment process is fair. Think they get torn off when you get called to interview.

[shanrina]

Thanks!

[wood_elf]

Welcome - good luck with the job.

[wigglewhiz]

There should be options for you to indicate that you'd prefer not to disclose - just sometimes on British forms it's not entirely that obvious.

You *don't* have to disclose and it won't hurt your chances at all.

[shanrina]

Thank you!