Interesting study on prejudice in job applications

Are resumes the same?

I've seen roles where we get hundreds of applications.
But, maybe 30 ppl have the minimum qualifications posted.

Have you seen this study before?

A white person with a felony conviction is more likely to get hired than an equally qualified black person with a clean record.

But we hear mediocre white men here whine endlessly about DEI because they can’t get better jobs.

ETA there’s a whole book about it. Marked by Devah Pager.

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1. Muslims. Only 1 of 15 Abduhl Mohammends get an interview.

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I prefer to have employees that dont randomly explode.

Did the white felons produce?

This has been known for awhile. its apparent on mortgage applications as well.

But the government is not the right solution for it. It leads to overbearing policies like DEI.

the private market has to fix hiring discrimination on their own.

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But we hear mediocre white men here whine endlessly about DEI because they can’t get better jobs.

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List the white men here.

What qualifies as white male mediocrity ?

And I’ll make a donation to the charity of your choice if you can link me to a post here that meets what you outlined in that quote.

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equally qualified black person

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Sorry. Degrees from HBCUs don't count as those from real schools.

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mediocre white men

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Ahh. The whites who got us to outer space, invented everything we use nowadays. Computers, cars etc.

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whine

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Sorry we aren't ok w being good at our jobs. Then some minority gets handed a great role when they don't know shite. Any corporate workplace has a lot of minorities that are totally incompetent.

I don't interview people that list "University of Louisiana" on their application.

The way it works now (in my last 2 decades) is hiring managers don’t even get to see all the applications. We see the list curated by HR.

We get fed absolute dogshit applicants, honestly, and never know who we missed out on.

I can’t recall the last male I was able to interview. I would dare say out of the last 20 interviews, it has been maybe 3 white women, 7 Hispanic women, and 10 black women.

I was forced to hire an HBCU grad a couple of years ago. I told them that I’d rather not fill the position than hire her. A few months in, it was clear she was a horrible employee. I had to document incidents and the attempts to correct. It took OVER A YEAR before I was finally allowed to fire her, and it took intervention from IT to show that she was lying about her time card.

All that to say. Yeah. In the old days, I’d chunk your resume if it was clear you wouldn’t be a fit. But I also hired a lot of awesome black people that were a fit. Skin color and name don’t define you, but your attitude and career path can.