This is a picture of a Canadian Business article from its January 2015 issue. I had to post its pic here, since it's not available on its website. 1st pic is of the whole article & the 2nd one is of the last paragraph in the article, which I want to highlight. Most profound sentence in that para:
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"One of the biggest barriers to getting employed for a recent immigrant is the hiring process & the reliance on the resume." For example, a 2011 University of Toronto study showed that applicants with Anglophone names were more likely to pass the resume-screening process, regardless of experience or education.
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Although, the managing director of software company, Fitzii, emphasizes that it only happens to "recent immigrants." Using simple logic, one can question that why this cannot happen or already happening to experienced individuals, too? Since, resume-screening software isn't even looking at the experience or education, & eliminating job candidates based on their names, it can happen to any individual, regardless of that individual having 1 month of Canadian relevant work experience or 10 years.
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"One of the biggest barriers to getting employed for a recent immigrant is the hiring process & the reliance on the resume." For example, a 2011 University of Toronto study showed that applicants with Anglophone names were more likely to pass the resume-screening process, regardless of experience or education.
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Although, the managing director of software company, Fitzii, emphasizes that it only happens to "recent immigrants." Using simple logic, one can question that why this cannot happen or already happening to experienced individuals, too? Since, resume-screening software isn't even looking at the experience or education, & eliminating job candidates based on their names, it can happen to any individual, regardless of that individual having 1 month of Canadian relevant work experience or 10 years.
Anyway, since, almost every company, at least all the large ones, have these resume-screening softwares, job candidates with non-Anglophone names will never know when they are eliminated based on their name only, except receiving a standard email, "Sorry ....".
That's why, we hear names like Alex Arifuzzaman (most likely Bengali) or Sydney Zaidi (Pakistani) or Manny (from Maninder) or Sunny (from Sunil) (both Indians) or all those Anglophone names of Asians.
So, essentially, you are pretty much screwed as a candidate, if your name is not Matthew, John, Eric, Jane, Patricia, or Cindy. Maybe, I should change my name to Moe.
That's why, we hear names like Alex Arifuzzaman (most likely Bengali) or Sydney Zaidi (Pakistani) or Manny (from Maninder) or Sunny (from Sunil) (both Indians) or all those Anglophone names of Asians.
So, essentially, you are pretty much screwed as a candidate, if your name is not Matthew, John, Eric, Jane, Patricia, or Cindy. Maybe, I should change my name to Moe.
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