José Zamora made one change to his resume: he changed his name from José Zamora to Joe Zamora. He says that within the next week he saw an immediate difference in the amount of responses he received from prospective employers. This matches similar findings in studies about the importance of racial indications of a name, even if the rest of the resume is exactly identical. What should the take away be? How can we help improve the situation? Pop Trigger discusses.
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