Over 9,000 applications for States' jobs in 2015

Thursday 11 February 2016

There were more than 9,300 applications to work for the States in 2015 but only 521 appointments.

The figures are revealed in a Freedom of Information request asking for the nationality and ethnicity that applicants listed on their application forms last year.

When it comes to ethnicity, the vast majority of applicants (90.3%) described themselves as White UK / European. 107 applicants defined themselves as ‘African’, 43 as 'Indian', 23 as ‘Chinese’, 28 as ‘Caribbean’ and 45 as ‘of Asian background’. 4% of applicants, however, chose not to state their ethnicity and there were a number of other categories.

Of the 521 new appointments, 44.14% stated their ethnicity as White British and 35.32% stated their ethnicity as White Jersey.