{"id":600,"date":"2018-01-25T12:45:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/elizabethtatelaw\/?p=600"},"modified":"2019-08-05T12:47:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:47:29","slug":"the-unusual-reason-some-employers-discriminate-against-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethtatelaw.com\/the-unusual-reason-some-employers-discriminate-against-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The unusual reason some employers discriminate against race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Racial tensions have long been a national malady in American society. This is true for employment sectors as well. Racial discrimination continues to be an ongoing issue despite its covert tendency during hiring interviews and on-the-job scenarios, but why? That is the question that a group of researchers asked in a study conducted to examine why some employers are discriminating against race.<\/p>\n

Details of the study<\/strong><\/p>\n

A total of 9,400 phony resumes were sent to six large metro cities posing as recent college graduates for online job postings. Factors such as prior job experience and college majors varied randomly amongst the resumes submitted. Half of the fake candidates were assigned “white names” and the other half “black names”. \u00a0The chosen names derived from a database of most common names per ethnic group. The targeted jobs were customer service centered as well as authoritative inter-office positions.<\/p>\n

The results of the study<\/strong><\/p>\n

Surprisingly, racial bias existed largely on what the customers would think and feel as opposed to the direct feelings of a potential employer. Despite having earned a degree, only 15 percent of African-American applicants were invited to interview for a position they were qualified for.<\/p>\n

Additional results of the study<\/a> showed:<\/p>\n