Indeed painful issue. Painful and for recruiters and candidates and employers. Of course, the gender discrimination in our country is prohibited, but, like it or not, and hear from the client sometimes phrases — «this is a potential nekretnina, I will not watch».We — recruiters — are in the grip of circumstances: on the one hand the requirements of the customer, on the other — there is a real good candidates, which you can not imagine just because this young girl without children.
afraid of What company? The logic is simple: «We person pay money for 1.5 years, but in fact it does not work. Among other things we have to pay another man, who eventually runs on maternity rate» And another employee on maternity rate will suddenly be more successful than the one it replaces, but the employer will not be able to leave when discretize come to work (unless of course the company will not be free rates). As well as arguments against girls, the employer proposes — «it will settle after a month immediately leave in the decree, «strangled» by reference, and there’s nothing we can do». It is a common stereotype, like «do not look after 40 years» and «she’s got small children, she will often take sick leave».
the Employer is interested in a stable employee. Taking a person, he wants to be sure that resources (financial and time)spent on selection, you will not need to spend again. Business in Russia all by hook or by crook trying to survive in the current economic realities, and not employers strictly condemn. Our task is to show the inefficiency of their approach — «I Will consider only the young people, they don’t go out in the decree» and show the opportunities and chances that the company loses.
the Probability that the employee may at any time to leave in the decree, was not canceled. But what is this probability? When hiring for and conducted interviews to understand the aims of the people on career, professional achievements, or just need a stable income and interests linked to a greater extent with building a family. The probability of losing employer «unit» there is always, not only because of the decree of the employee: ill grandfather, who lives in another city — I had to get off and go, got in a car accident — the recovery will take several months, decided to completely change career, get more education and even «the renunciation of worldly values and care in the monastery, the hermit, etc. Options weight. And, of course, is simple — he wants more wages, did not agree with the head and so on
during my work I often heard from clients and reverse the sentence — «I Will watch only girls, they are more Executive». And it is difficult not to agree. The reason lies in the differences in male and female psychology, in the tradition of education, which in our country is still the place to be. Girls always bring a little stricter than boys, more stringent requirements for its moral appearance, demeanor. The girl accustomed to obey, to restrain themselves. It is rooted in the model of conduct applies to the professional world. Male nature initiative, ambition, independence. Therefore, the employer is not insured against and the young man can in a short time to leave work a few months and want something more».
Summarizing all the above, I want to say — the risk is always there, and the decree of the employee — only a few of them. Yes, the contents of maternity employee employer costs a certain amount, does not pay off. However, the same girl labeled a «potential discretize», can bring these profits and benefits to the company that the employer did not dream, may be the Executive officer, which is always looking for any organization. And having gone on maternity leave, to go out in a few months, without waiting for 1.5 years — such cases are not rare. During the time the employee is absent from duty can be redistributed among existing staff is a question of team cohesion, its psychological climate as subordinates will react to the additional duties.
All solved. We have to look — what is this person. Because stereotypes are stereotypes — generalized conclusions based on the few cases that have been erected in the rule. It is also illogical, as on one or two residents of the city to judge about the city, or be judged by representatives of the nationality of a country.
any generalizations in psychology is always conditional. Man is a highly individual phenomenon. Therefore, when working with staff, the selection should always remember about the individual approach.
Margarita Bragin
Consultant recruitment
Recruitment company AVICONN