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Old 2011-11-02, 03:37   Link #56
Jinto
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Fürth (GER)
Age: 43
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Originally Posted by Fahd View Post
4) If your child (in much later life) happens to come across an employer than won't employ them because of their name/skin colour disconnect, I think that's actually a good thing because they probably wouldn't be happy working at such a place. A job interview is always a two way process - you get to evaluate the company just as much as they get to evaluate you.
For most (bigger) companies it is the HR department that goes through all the job applications and does a pre-filtering based on to some part "esoteric" filtering criterias.
Having an exotic name when you clearly are of a different ethnicity sometimes falls into these exotic filter criteria (e.g. in Germany you'ld be literaly disadvantaged with first names like: Chantal, Kevin, Jacqueline, Angelina, Justin... typically persons with german roots who are named like that are associated with deadbeat families).

And before you get to a job interview you have to survive the first round of being selected for an interview.

But thats beside the point.. What I actually like to contest is one's ability to evaluate your possible working environment in a job interview. In a huge company chances are that you will interact very sporadically with those HR people once you are hired.
So, the hiring process and the actual working environment can be very different things.

One also has to consider another aspect. Depending on the situation in the job market, job seeking people might not be in a position to be picky when it comes to the employment conditions. So, the two way process certainly applies for people who have the luxury of falling into a category of employees for whom there is a high demand in the job market.

@Vexx,

They don't have to tell you why they did not take you/declined your job application. The laws against such discrimination exist in Germany too, but as a would be employee you have to prove that you dropped out of the application process because of some sort of discrimination. This is next to impossible.
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