TikToker reveals insane difference after listing herself as white on job applications TIKTOK: dee.realzA TikToker went viral after sharing she the insane difference she noticed after listing herself as white on job applications. The Black job applicant, Dee, started a discussion on TikTok, after revealing that she only started receiving job interviews when she listed her race as white on applications. In a viral video with over 886,000 views, Dee shared that she has been \u201cangrily and aggressively looking for a new job\u201d for a job the past six months, resulting in her submitting at least three applications per day. Despite revamping her resume three times, and switching from using her first name to her middle name, \u201cso it sounds a little less \u2018ethic,\u2019\u201d she still received no responses to her applications. However, Dee said she came across a TED Talk video, which advised changing one\u2019s race to white on a job application to receive more responses. Taking this advice, the TikToker said she started listing herself as white on job applications, and she is already seeing results. \u201cI have four interviews next week,\u201d Dee shared. \u201cSame resume. Same qualifications. Same everything.\u201d \u201cBoy are they gonna be mad when my Black ass shows up for that job,\u201d she laughingly added at the end of the video. TikTok users react to job applicant\u2019s insane findings Many TikTok users supported Dee\u2019s findings. \u201cThat\u2019s how I got my jobs. It\u2019s so sad that it\u2019s gotta be this way,\u201d one user commented. \u201cI put \u2018prefer not to disclose\u2019 on the race section. Got 6 offers in a week,\u201d another claimed. \u201cApplied to the same companies twice and once I changed my race to mixed\u2026got calls for interviews,\u201d a third user wrote. \u201cAs an HR professional blind resumes are the way to go!\u201d someone else shared. \u201cThere\u2019s soo much implicit bias it\u2019s crazy. Omit anything that shows EEO data.\u201d A 2017 article under Harvard Business School\u2019s Working Knowledge vertical reviewed a study in which applicants submitted both minority and \u201cwhitened\u201d resumes to several companies. \u201cCompanies are more than twice as likely to call minority applicants for interviews if they submit whitened resumes than candidates who reveal their race,\u201d the study found. \u201cThis discriminatory practice is just as strong for businesses that claim to value diversity as those that don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikToker reveals insane difference after listing herself as white on job applications TIKTOK: dee.realzA TikToker went viral after sharing she the insane difference she noticed after listing herself as white on job applications. The Black job applicant, Dee, started a discussion on TikTok, after revealing that she only started receiving job interviews when she listed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}