OZ Boss prefer to interview jobseeker with Anglo-Saxon name
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Bosses prefer to interview jobseekers with Anglo-Saxon names
i open this thread with this quote so u will know the theme of this survey
by a Professor,a full professor,i suppose, from Australian National U!!
“After completing TAFE in 2005 I applied for many junior positions where no experience in sales was needed – even though I had worked for two years as a junior sales clerk. I didn’t receive any calls so I decided to legally change my name to Gabriella Hannah. I applied for the same jobs and got a call 30 minutes later.”
~ Gabriella Hannah, formerly Ragda Ali, SydneyTAFE is some sort of adult education or technical eduaction.
I thiink like SG ITE!!
My target audiences are so many would be migrants to the Lucky Nation
Down Under.Dunt be naive.A job down under is not easy,especially
if u are not a White!!
Dunt listen to me.Listen to this ANU Professor which is a ang moh!
So,will u change your name from SG name like Tan David to Kevin Rudd
or Julia Gillard,DPM of Australia?This sure will help u to get
a job interview.Yes just a interview,according to this academic survey.
No job is guranteed!!
http://andrewleigh.com/
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The Jobseeker Study
There were several things that surprised me about the jobseeking experiment:
- (lion note --he means Australian )Indigenous applicants seem to face less discrimination at the interview stage than Chinese or Middle Eastern applicants. To get the same number of interviews as an applicant with an Anglo-Saxon name, a Chinese applicant must submit 68% more applications, a Middle Eastern applicant must submit 64% more applications, an Indigenous applicant must submit 35% more applications, and an Italian applicant must submit 12% more applications.
- Discrimination against Chinese and Middle Eastern jobseekers is highest in Sydney, and lowest in Brisbane. As a Sydneysider, this rather dispelled my notion of tolerant Sydney vs redneck Brissie, but it’s entirely consistent with the literature on migration threat, which finds that an influx of migrants increases prejudice. In the long-term, Sydney may end up more tolerant, but the short-term effect of being the number one destination for immigrants is a rise in prejudice.
- Even in data-entry jobs, there is substantial discrimination against non-Anglo applicants. This indicates that it can’t just be customer-based discrimination, but must be either driven by coworker or employer biases.
The chart below shows how Australian discrimination in 2007 compares with similar studies that have been done in other places and at other times. The way to read the vertical axis is that 1 means the minority candidate must submit just as many more applications to get the same number of interviews, 1.5 means the minority candidate must submit 50% more applications to get the same number of interviews, and 2 means the minority candidate must submit twice as many applications to get the same number of interviews.
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news
http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,27753,25654121-5012426,00.html
Bosses prefer to interview jobseekers with Anglo-Saxon names
By Stephen Lunn,The Australian,June 18, 2009
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