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Old 07-05-2008, 17:27   #46
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Re: Boris And The Liberal Hypocrites

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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo View Post
There was a documented case a few years back where an applicant sent identical cvs off to same employers, one with a name that could be associated with being black (or from another background - i cant remember exactly) and the other cv from a typical 'english' name. He received more rejections from the 'black' cv than the other.

I think that this could be the only way, apart from the interviewer admitting it, that something smelling of racism is a foot.

This isnt the case I was thinking about but something similar - although here the company said that the "white" applicant was willing to move to Wales

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstor...9520-19337518/
I have also heard that the white person was refused more times that the black.
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