Fake Job Applications Prove There’s Real LGBT Discrimination in Hiring

[Gormy Cuss]

38. And I'm not saying there was discrimination, just that my experience would tilt it in that direction

Remember that the candidates resubmitted resumes so the LGBT activist was put in the "no" pile twice.

As I wrote above, the test was too limited and targeted companies where discrimination in hiring is apparently acceptable thus it's not surprising that there were fewer callbacks.

As someone in HR you are aware that extra effort must be made to ensure that you're not throwing too many resumes from protected class members in that "not interested" pile because of bias. With members of protected groups your company can't simply say it's because of grammar errors or under/over qualification if for example 80% of all the resumes for POCs end up in the "no" pile. You need procedures in place to mitigate potential bias. In this example, interviewing candidates perceived as slightly over or under qualified.

eta: having worked for Federal contractors, the HR also made concerted efforts to change recruiting strategies to identify more potential candidates who were POCs because traditional recruiting methods weren't delivering the diversity among candidates.

IMHO the point of this exercise was to pressure the Federal government to expand nondiscrimination categories to include LGBTers rather than an actual measure of the level of discrimination that is faced.