The current job market is tough. In the tech market specifically, employment across all sectors declined by approximately 214,000 jobs in April, according to the tech trade association CompTIA, which analyzes data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s even harder for Black workers to find a job as unemployment among Black Americans rose to its highest level in more than three years. In June, the jobless rate for Black Americans increased to 6.8%, up from 6% in May, according to the Labor Department, as reported by CNN. So, how can you stand
Large U.S. employers are 9.5% more likely to contact candidates with names that suggested they were white than those presumed to be Black, a new study has revealed. Uncovering Systematic Bias In a study by leading economists Evan Rose, Patrick Kline and Christopher Walters, approximately 80,000 fabricated résumés were sent out 10,000 jobs at 97 of the largest companies in the U.S. The experiment explored racial and gender biases by alternating names on résumés to imply different ethnicities and genders—such as Latisha or Amy (suggesting Black or white women) and Lamar or
