What’s in a name? How recruitment discriminates against ‘foreign’ applicants

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 05:37:02 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/whats-in-a-name-how-recruitment-discriminates-against-foreign-applicants-160695>

"I have analysed 123 “resume studies” to get a more fine-grained understanding
of name-based discrimination in recruitment.

Resume studies typically involve researchers responding to real job
advertisements with very similar resumes of fictitious job candidates. In these
studies, some resumes have names indicating an applicant comes from an ethnic
minority group, while other resumes have more common names. This enables
researchers to compare the responses for the different names.

My review covered studies conducted in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Britain,
Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia,
Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Sweden, and the United States.

More than 95% of the studies identified high ethnic discrimination in
recruitment. On average, ethnic minority applicants received about half as many
positive responses to their job applications."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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