Qandor Magazine | Issue No. 5 | September 2020

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RECRUITMENT

CHANGING PERCEPTIONS – COULD WE ALL BE DOING MORE TO CUT OUT DISCRIMINATION? RACHEL GEDDES Business Principal Mortgage Advice Bureau www.mab.co.uk

Qandor member Rachel Geddes is Business Principal and a Mortgage Adviser at Mortgage Advice Bureau on Lombard Street in the heart of London. In this article, she gives tips on how to be impartial in order to get the best candidates working for you. When I started out in the financial industry over 15 years ago, the world felt a different place to what it is now.

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However, given the recent events around the unjust murder of George Floyd by an American state police officer, the Black Live Matters movement has triggered serious questions about whether we’re doing enough across all corners of the globe to cut out racism and prejudice. I’m fortunate enough to have grown up in a diverse community where race, colour, gender or sexual preference was never a second thought for the people I surrounded myself with. As a young child and into my teenage years, there was never a thought in


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