The Spes labor market, but one of the workers found that the reason for its lack of interviews was more exciting than just a saturated market. In a post on Reddit, she made it clear that she changed her “foreign” name in her CV into something more “white”, and suddenly began to conduct interviews.

When you spend hours per day for several months, you resume biography to the abyss, it is easy to start feeling that you, not the system, is the problem. But after a dry talisman that does not stop, this worker said that she became suspicious and decided to try a single small target appeal to see if he would have a difference. I made a difference, the change was quickly and shocking.

The worker suddenly started obtaining work interviews by changing her “foreigner”.

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The worker explained She was already using a title instead of the first “foreign” name, because her last name is “very short” and “easy to pronounce”. The trick should have done, right?

But short and easy to pronounce as it is, its title is also “not white”. It is clear that it is a culture that is seen as outside America. She was not a 10 -year career problem before, so she didn’t think about it.

But now she lives in the states, where, of course, things differ completely when it comes to these issues, especially at the present time. “I knew that discrimination was present in employment, but I thought frankly it wouldn’t affect me,” she wrote. “I hired people myself and never cared about the names or race. Fellow for me.”

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Six months after reaching anywhere, the last name of her “white” husband changed everything.

“I spent about 6 months to apply for jobs,” I continued. “Either I received a letter of refusal without one interview or got a ghost.” She focused on “quality, not quantity” while making sure that she conducted her research, played itself properly, and even recruiting professional assistance in her CV and cover messages.

However, nothing, even after applying to more than 150 jobs, work contacts and communicate directly with employment managers and other LinkedIn employees. “I felt destroyed and not value, and worried about debt began just to stay,” she wrote.

Then her husband suggested that her first name spent differently and take his name “white sounding” in her CV and LinkedIn’s definition file, and even created a new email address with this name. It took only one week to get two interviews, one of which led it to the final decision point. I wrote: “Nothing has changed, just my name.”

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Discrimination in employment like this is very common, and some say artificial intelligence tools make it worse.

“I am happy that I finally get interviews … but seeing such a blatant difference is so shock,” she wrote. “It is a bitter feeling.” It is not alone at all.

In the early first decade of the twentieth century, Major study I found that candidates with names such as “Emily” and “Greg” were 50 % more vulnerable to obtaining a CV from the candidates called “Lakisha” or “Jamal”, even if all other details were equal.

Twenty years later, these discrimination rates have become better, but they are still shocked. Study 2024 From the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley found that white candidates are supposed to have summoned between 9 % and 24 % more than those supposed black.

And now with an increase The integration of artificial intelligence in the recruitment processIt seems worse. Studies have found that artificial intelligence systems in employment, such as those used to track applicants and interviews, often often often often offended things like speaking accents and facial expressions and punishing candidates accordingly. It is not surprising that artificial intelligence tools are struggling with these elements with non -white candidates.

The artificial intelligence employment systems were also found to take trends within the company’s employees as signals that must be repeated, such as the famous accident now in Amazon, where the artificial intelligence tool in the system noticed the company’s scarcity of female employees and took it to avoid employing women.

It is not difficult to imagine artificial intelligence tools that make a similar miscalculation on the names, which makes the problem already existing with the name of the name worse. It is sad that the trick of this woman is a good advice in our growing business market. “It is very sad to try this directly,” she wrote. (But) If your name looks “foreigner”, try to change it. “

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John Sondholm is a writer, editor and video personality with 20 years of experience in the media and entertainment. It covers culture, mental health and the topics of human attention.