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It shouldn't make a difference legally and if it does, would you really want to work there?
I always check “Other” and put “Jewish” just in case. Last name helps, tbh. I think it works.
Feel free to identify as whatever you want 😉
Hiring Manager here. The only thing that I can see in our Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is your:
1. Name
2. Phone Number
3. Email Address
4. Most Recent Education
5. Resume
6. LinkedIn page
I get no diversity information. I have no way of knowing your race/ethnicity, gender, disability status, or status as a veteran. I have been conducting interviews for two decades; I have never had access to this information.
I can tell you, as a former IT Manager for HR and Compliance, that this identifying information is mostly completed by white men. So, if you leave it empty, you are most likely neither white nor male.
How do you know that only white males fill it out if you can’t see it? 🤔
It may increase your chances of an interview if you are a minority. Often, places won’t have a hiring quota for a given minority, it may have an interview quota.
It's illegal to consider race or gender even if the goal is to create a more diverse workforce. Anti-discrimination laws protect you even if you're not in a minority group.
Unfortunately, there are often conflicting policies within organizations these days, so I would not be surprised if anti-discrimination laws are being violated.
Policies that base company bonuses on diversity numbers create incentives for employees to discriminate during hiring. This is absolutely a thing.
Maybe. If you're white and disclose, you might see less because companies claim (at least publicly) they want to increase their diversity.
Name gives it away
If you choose "do not disclose" they know you're a White male, because every other group gets preferential treatment and wants to play up their non-White maleness.
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I see no difference when testing different things.
These days yeah “do not disclose”
I never disclose and get a fair interest of interviews
You don’t disclose your name? How do you do that?
Don't disclose. My husband is a white male & when he started putting mixed race, he started getting more responses than if he picked just white. It's not something any company will admit, but with the explosion of ERG & DEI, its obvious.
How is it that ither folks in this thread did the same and had the opposite outcome, though?
My ex husband was half asian and half white. When he picked Asian we both saw an increase in responses VS white. Not sure if it’s a perception bias or what. But I also know that at my previous company we did have quotas for black employees disclosed.
That’s wild because my husband is half white and half black and he got more calls during his last search when he checked white. His name is also extremely typical for white males, which may also have something to do with it. It’s basically John Smith 🤣
Just as an FYI - Employers who have at least 100 employees and federal contractors who have at least 50 employees are required to complete and submit an EEO-1 Report (a government form that requests information about employees' job categories, ethnicity, race, and gender) to EEOC and the U.S. Department of Labor every year. You can verify this on the Department of Labor web page.
And Federal Contractors are required to report their APPLICANT data.
Let's look at it another way. If the answers there materially changed a candidate's success rate, it would be reflected in the demographics of the company you're interviewing with. How do the demographics of the target company compare to your demographics?
I doubt that would help. It could be a brand new policy to correct a current actual or perceived lack of diversity. Or it could just be lip service to collect diversity information and the company has no interest in changing anything. Ultimately you have no way of knowing how any information provided during the hiring process will be used, so the best you can do is just not actively lie.
You got to be serious
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Pick White and Male as a test.
am asian but identify as white .. is that ok :-) ?
I have a very typical white male name so it never works
As someone who does a lot of hiring for engineers and Tpms, I can tell you I don't give a crap what anything you are. I want the best. Best skills and best cultural fit ( engineering mentality/team player)
It shouldn't make a difference - but why do they ask anyway? Affirmative Action/reverse discrimination/all discrimination is unconstitutional.
Because the US gov literally asks for this info 🙄
I did, I am African American. I put two or more races and or I say I'm Hispanic, sometimes; anything other than black. I always get the interview but no the job. When I put I'm African American I never get an interview.
Same. My name is also racially ambiguous (but obviously not white) so not disclosing or checking a different race doesn’t help. I’ve always had to fight my way in through contract placement and then by references.