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I'm a broadcast journalist who's worked on BBC programmes (through an independent production company so never directly employed by the BBC). Since leaving that job I've applied for various jobs throught the BBC's careers centre and found their selection process really opaque, so I was hoping someone in this subreddit might have worked in BBC recruitment and can share some advice. Couple of recent episodes caused confusion.

1. I applied for a journalist position recently that I thought I was well qualified for, but within less than 48hrs (on a Saturday morning) I got a generic rejection email. I'd like to stress I can handle rejection and I'm open to the idea that other people's applications were better, I just was not confident that a human being had read mine. I tracked down the HR email address who said: "We review all application forms and CV’s for our roles, the hiring team started looking at all the applications as soon as the role closed."

2. Two days ago I submitted an application form for another journalist job. 2 of the answer fields said the limit for responses was 300 words. I wrote all my answers in a separate document ready to copy and paste in when I was ready to submit. When I did this it didn't accept more than 300 *characters*. 2 tweets worth of writing probably isn't sufficient to answer these substantial questions, and this was surely a mistake. I ended up just writing a link to my Google doc where I'd written my full answers. I also emailed the production to report these issues, and attached my full answers to them. The job closed that night and I got the same generic rejection email this morning, with no one as yet responding regarding issues with the application form.

Does anyone know what the screening process is for BBC applications? Is there an automated screening system that filters out certain applications early on? I've heard the BBC say that they promise to personally read every application. I've also heard some people say that some applications are automatically rejected if they don't mention certain words in the job description. Most concerningly I've read one report that says they filter out applicants who tick "prefer not to say" on some of the diversity questions (which I do in some cases). Surely that's not true.

Just wondering if anyone has any experience here and can shed some light.

thanks

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