Black Woman Pretends To Be White, Job Offers Skyrocket

[zappaman]

Yolanda Spivey is an African American woman, she was unemployed for two years, and had applied for over 300 jobs to no avail — despite a having a decade’s worth of experience in the insurance industry, and a college degree. Spivey wrote in Techyville that as an experiment, she first started “declining to state” her ethnicity on Monster.Com’s Diversity Questionnaire, but that had no effect. Spivey then created a fake profile, with identical information, except that her fictitious job candidate was white, and was aptly named “Bianca White” (Bianca means “white” in Spanish). Suddenly, responses from employers came pouring in.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/10/black-woman-pretends-to-be-white-job-offers-skyrocket-video/

[NYC_SKP]

1. Actually, "bianca" is Italian for "white", not Spanish.

"blanca" is the Spanish term.

In any event, I'm not surprised at this, but am very saddened.

I guess it'll take another lifetime or two, I'm getting to old to expect to see a significant reduction in racism in this culture.

[zappaman]

3. Good catch on the Spanish

It truly is sad that we are still so backwards in so many ways.

[marybourg]

2. I find this unbelievable on 2 counts:

1. Thousands of white women with collage degrees and insurance industry experience are still out of work and have never had skyrocket job offers. 2) Many black people are named "White". (Google "Walter White", if you don't remember him).

[JaneyVee]

4. She put down white as her ethnicity on the fake account.

[JimDandy]

5. Maybe that's because employers don't value collage degrees.

[zappaman]

9. "Collages"

Who doesn't love them?
http://www.kizoa.com/Collage-Maker

[zappaman]

6. The proof is there.

Did you watch the video?

[LisaL]

12. She got job offers without interviews and references check?

I find that hard to believe.

[NYC_SKP]

8. It wasn't the name so much as the fact that the second profile specified "white" as her race.

It was a fictitious profile with different name and race.

Her original profile indicated black, then she tried unspecified, still no good hits.

When she changed her name AND race to white, the skyrocketing began, she says.

[gollygee]

15. I have to edit this.

People with black-sounding names on their resumes don't get responses, like phone interviews or anything. She started getting responses when she said she was white and put in a false name.

I'm not surprised at all.

Yes, thousands of white women are also out of work, and only when they thought she was also a white woman was she in a position to compete for what few jobs there are.

I can't imagine she's all of a sudden getting offers. It seems like it would be responses, but I'll edit my subject line because I re-read and saw the headline at the link, and it does say "offers'.

[LisaL]

17. Title of the article claims her job offers skyrocketed.

Same in the video.

[Hoyt]

7. Sad, but not surprising. I'm sure corporate Human Resources people have an "explanation."

[TimberValley]

10. But many white people struggle to get a job, too.

And I think many of these are white people with quite a bit of experience or education.


Unless I'm wrong?

[zappaman]

13. You're missing the point here.

Think about it.

[TimberValley]

14. My point is, I doubt many white people get bombarded with job offers just because

they're white.

[zappaman]

16. That's not the point at all.

The point is ethnicity seems to be playing a role in whether or not you get considered for a job.

Can you really not see that?

[CBGLuthier]

19. he can see it. He does not want to admit it.

Willfully Obtuse.

[temporary311]

18. You're right, of course.

And she wasn't getting job offers just because she became "white." She started getting job offers because she had 10 years experience in the field, a degree, and became "white."

[HappyMe]

11. What a fucking shame in this day and age.

Female white privilege.

[Mr Dixon]

20. SMH

Truthfully I don’t think any of us will live to see the day that everyone is treated equal, it ‘starting to look like neither will our grand kids and I don’t even have grand kids yet SMH.