Recruiter accidently emailed me her secret internal selection guidelines 👀

There was a comment about the diversity angle and it's more complicated than that. Hiring laws vary across states and even local cities, and everything is illegal somewhere. So a lot rests on what has been tested in courts and is 'consistently' illegal, like making explicit hiring decisions based on protected classes. What a lot of companies do is separate sourcing from hiring. Sourcing gets applications, but every application gets looked at "legally" by hiring without asking where it came from. Sourcing people from different areas can still be illegal but it's less of a tested area. Like if a recruiter sponsors a job post in a bunch of diverse community groups, and doesn't pay to sponsor it equally in all groups representing all people, is that illegal? These instructions could just mean, all things equal (i.e. as a "bonus"), put your dollars into places that might have more diverse talent.