I recently applied to the Civil Service in the UK and they asked me to produce an anonymised CV, namely remove my name and contact details In principle I like

I recently applied to the Civil Service in the UK and they asked me to produce an anonymised CV, namely remove my name and contact details In principle I like the idea but I think they should ask to also remove the company names and perhaps dates, as it could be straight forward to work out who you are based on companies and dates. As to how effective to remove bias, it's hard to say as I've not seen any A/B testing done with this, but give the massive push to get minorities on board, I'd hazard a guess that it's not as effective as they had hoped