Claim: People with white-sounding names are nearly twice as likely to get call backs for jobs than people with ethnic sounding names.
Fact-check: Job applicants with ethnic minority sounding names are less likely to be called for interview - Full Fact
Verdict: in a 2009 experimental study, 10.7% of applicants with a white sounding name received a positive response, compared with 6.2% of applicants with an ethnic minority sounding name - making them 74% more likely to get a positive response.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Amy Sippitt
Date published: 2015-10-26T00:00:00