Resumé Whitewashing - The Jill Bennett Show - May 01, 2016

GUEST: Sonia Kang

TITLE:  Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour, University of Toronto

 

It’s a disturbing practice called “resumé whitening” and involves deleting telltale signs of race or ethnicity from a CV in the hopes of landing a job. And it happens more often than you’d think. According to a two-year study led by University of Toronto researchers, as many as 40 per cent of minority jobseekers “whiten” their resumés by adopting Anglicized names and downplaying experience with racial groups to bypass biased screeners and just get their foot in the door.

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