Diskriminering i rekryteringsprocessen? : En kvalitativ studie om rekryterares upplevelser om den segregerade arbetsmarknaden och om anonyma ansökningsprocesser som metod för att minska etnisk diskriminering

Sammanfattning: Ethnic discrimination in employment decisions has received increasing attention and is one of several explanatory models for why Sweden has an ethnically segregated labor market. The purpose of this study is to contribute to an increased understanding of how recruiters reflect on the ethnically segregated labor market and anonymous job applications. The purpose is answered with the questions of how recruiters relate to the ethnically segregated labor market, which individual and structural explanations they raise and how recruiters view anonymous job applications. Previous research shows that ethnic discrimination is a reflection of the segregated labor market and that anonymous job applications has positive effects in terms of interview requests for immigrants. This study is based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with recruitment and staffing companies. Three companies whose method is anonymous and two companies with non- anonymous methods. The results show that recruiters describe the ethnically segregated labor market as a result of both structural and individual explanations. Recruiters discuss the anonymous job applications in terms of having generally more advantages than disadvantages, where the main advantage is the anonymisation of candidates in order to reduce the risk for sources of error in the recruitment process.