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LinkedIn used to be a sort of Facebook for work colleagues. Now is has become an almost mandatory part of of your professional toolkit. It stinks.
I don't have a picture on my profile and every single time I log in Microsoft sees it fit to remind me that adding a picture can get you noticed.
Yes Microsoft "adding a picture" must then, by implication, get other people comparatively less noticed right.
This drip, drip shift to demand that you have an online presence is troubling. Not only because of choice and privacy reasons in the USA but also because of the fact that most countries outside of the USA do not have the same protections against discrimination that you have in the USA.
We know that employers discriminate based on names, race etc but they choose to do nothing about it (except talk).
So while I am here pac-spitting
on Microsoft I need to spare some for AirBNB and the other sharing platforms that put $$$ ahead of the ideals they profess that they uphold.
I will
the day that AirBNB and Uber go out of business.
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17 May 2017Research & Ideas
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
by Dina Gerdeman
African American and Asian job applicants who mask their race on resumes seem to have better success getting job interviews, according to research by Katherine DeCelles and colleagues.
Minority job applicants are “whitening” their resumes by deleting references to their race with the hope of boosting their shot at jobs, and research shows the strategy is paying off.
In fact, companies are more than twice as likely to call minority applicants for interviews if they submit whitened resumes than candidates who reveal their race—and this discriminatory practice is just as strong for businesses that claim to value diversity as those that don’t.
DeCelles co-authored a September 2016 article about the two-year study in Administrative Science Quarterly called Whitened Resumes: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market (pdf) with Sonia K. Kang, assistant professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the University of Toronto Mississauga; András Tilcsik, assistant professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto; and Sora Jun, a doctoral candidate at Stanford University.
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
I don't have a picture on my profile and every single time I log in Microsoft sees it fit to remind me that adding a picture can get you noticed.
Yes Microsoft "adding a picture" must then, by implication, get other people comparatively less noticed right.
This drip, drip shift to demand that you have an online presence is troubling. Not only because of choice and privacy reasons in the USA but also because of the fact that most countries outside of the USA do not have the same protections against discrimination that you have in the USA.
We know that employers discriminate based on names, race etc but they choose to do nothing about it (except talk).
So while I am here pac-spitting
on Microsoft I need to spare some for AirBNB and the other sharing platforms that put $$$ ahead of the ideals they profess that they uphold.I will
the day that AirBNB and Uber go out of business.article
17 May 2017Research & Ideas
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
by Dina Gerdeman
African American and Asian job applicants who mask their race on resumes seem to have better success getting job interviews, according to research by Katherine DeCelles and colleagues.
Minority job applicants are “whitening” their resumes by deleting references to their race with the hope of boosting their shot at jobs, and research shows the strategy is paying off.
In fact, companies are more than twice as likely to call minority applicants for interviews if they submit whitened resumes than candidates who reveal their race—and this discriminatory practice is just as strong for businesses that claim to value diversity as those that don’t.
DeCelles co-authored a September 2016 article about the two-year study in Administrative Science Quarterly called Whitened Resumes: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market (pdf) with Sonia K. Kang, assistant professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the University of Toronto Mississauga; András Tilcsik, assistant professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto; and Sora Jun, a doctoral candidate at Stanford University.
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
