Tag
recruitment
2 findings
Behaviour & psychologyCoarse Categorization BiasRecruiters consistently lumped foreign-named applicants into a single lower-evaluated group based on assumed language barriers. Even when resumes explicitly listed multi-language fluency (English, French, mother tongue), active extracurricular involvement, or high-prestige backgrounds, callback rates remained suppressed at 5.9% to 11.3% compared to 15.7% for native English-named resumes.Observational StudyDevelopmentSenior Worker Mentor Recruitment1,000 senior mentors were recruited and paired with newly arrived junior workers across intervention arms, with full empirical impacts on mental health and retention forthcoming.RCT