Report on the name-blind recruitment pilot project in the Canadian civil service

In 2017, the Public Service Commission of Canada carried out a name-blind recruitment pilot project in 17 organisations (following the name-blind approach used in the UK since 2015). This project revealed that the name-blind approach had little impact on the screening of candidates from visible minorities, but it led to a significant decrease in the number of non-visible minority candidates screened. Therefore, there are no plans to mainstream the name-blind process for the time being.