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Old news from 2016 Jobseekers with Anglo-Saxon, easy to pronounce and common names are the most likely to get to the interview stage compared to candidates wit
by TheSpiceIsLife 4y ago
Old news from 2016
Jobseekers with Anglo-Saxon, easy to pronounce and common names are the most likely to get to the interview stage compared to candidates with unfamiliar names, according to research by the Australian National University published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/unusual-names-less-likely-to-be-successful-in-job-interviews-research-finds-a6870276.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/unusual-nam...
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