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Skin deep: should Australia consider name-blind resumes?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageName-blind resumes help reduce racial and gender bias.

Ashley, Ashton, Ashish, and Ashanti are four incredibly talented people with outstanding resumes. A copy of each is sitting on your desk, and you can’t help but notice that the four resumes are completely identical!

So do they have an identical chance of getting hired by you?

An interesting...

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