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Blind CVs for public service under Labor

Labor leader Bill Shorten says first-round public service applicants will submit nameless CVs to encourage diversity.

People applying for public service jobs would have nameless applications under Labor to boost gender equality.

The measure would apply to first-round applicants vying for Australian Public Service jobs if the opposition wins government at Saturday's election.

Labor leader Bill Shorten told a class of year 11 and 12 students at St Joseph College - a girls' school at Gosford on the NSW central coast - about the move.

"In the Commonwealth Public Service, we're going to have gender-neutral CVs," he said on Monday.

Experience and education would remain on nameless resumes.

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"We just got to start eliminating what I call to be unconscious bias," Mr Shorten said.

In 2017, the public service paused a "blind recruitment" trial after a major study found it led to less diversity.

Mr Shorten was responding to a student who asked him what he would do to ensure women in his parliamentary team were embraced.


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