It is more about how the hiring manager, at the end of the day, gets to say no about you when they phone back to the Public Service Commission to say, “I didn't pick Mr. McCauley for the following reasons.” That's where it ends.
If there were targets, it would be very different. Ask the Department of Veterans Affairs how many veterans are in the department. Between 2012 and 2014 there were only 75 veterans in a department of 3,000.