A new study suggts that men wh "gay résumés" are 40 percent ls likely to get lled for a whe-llar job terview. What giv?
Contents:
- WHY GAY MEN DON'T GET JOB TERVIEWS
- GAY AND STRAIGHT GUYS BOTH GO TO AN TERVIEW – GUS WHO GOT THE JOB
- INTERVIEWG GAY CANDIDAT
- GOLDMAN SACHS WANTS TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
- WATCH: HIDN CAMERA SHOWS MAN REJECTED AT JOB INTERVIEW FOR BEG GAY
WHY GAY MEN DON'T GET JOB TERVIEWS
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GAY AND STRAIGHT GUYS BOTH GO TO AN TERVIEW – GUS WHO GOT THE JOB
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- Qutn submted by Anonymo and answered by Sara Schmidt-Kost as a part of Everyone Is Gay: Send Opns. Fact SheetA new study suggts that men wh "gay résumés" are 40 percent ls likely to get lled for a whe-llar job terview.
Harvard rearcher András Tilcsik wanted to know if employers discrimated agast gay applints, so he and his lleagu sent out two sets of fake résumés for 1, 769 office or managerial job opengs seven stat.
INTERVIEWG GAY CANDIDAT
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One versn of the résumé suggted that the applint was gay. The gay "applint" was 40 percent ls likely to get lled for an terview. Here's what you should know:How did Tilcsik dite that one applint was gay?
GOLDMAN SACHS WANTS TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
The "gay" résumé listed a stt as treasurer of a llegiate gay anizatn. To separate any "gay penalty" om general anti-liberal polil bias on the employers' part, Tilcsik listed volvement wh a "progrsive and socialist alliance" on the other set of résumés place of the gay group.
5 percent of the time; the gay treasurer was lled back only 7. The study also found that, across the board, the gay applint was ls likely to get a nibble for jobs requirg "assertive, " "aggrsive, " or "cisive" behavr.
That suggts that the discrimatn "is partly rooted specific stereotyp and nnot be pletely rced to a general antipathy agast gay employe, " Tilcsik this mean gay job-seekers should scb their résumés? But the study do suggt that 's tough beg "a proud gay man lookg for a whe-llar job Ameri, " says Jonathan Higbee Instct. Maybe gay men "need a b of affirmative actn.
WATCH: HIDN CAMERA SHOWS MAN REJECTED AT JOB INTERVIEW FOR BEG GAY
" Bis, given the ubiquo e of social media by prospective employers and head-hunters, "beg out and proud on a ndidate's Facebook profile" uld negate any attempt to remove gay referenc om your résumé. Beg preemptively rejected might at least protect gays om enterg "a homophobic work environment.