Chapter The top candidate is an intermediate one: An analysis of online posts of Veneto industries

The paper describes the results of an experimental study carried out by sending bogus CVs in response to online posts. To each post related to a job vacation in a Veneto industry a number of five CVs was created and sent. The CVs were created so to experimentally evaluate the likelihood of discrimin...

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প্রধান লেখক: Fabbris, Luigi
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প্রকাশিত: Firenze University Press 2022
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description The paper describes the results of an experimental study carried out by sending bogus CVs in response to online posts. To each post related to a job vacation in a Veneto industry a number of five CVs was created and sent. The CVs were created so to experimentally evaluate the likelihood of discrimination against certain categories of candidates. The variability of call back rates of the addressed industries was analysed to elicit possible relationships between recruiters’ taste and gender, nationality, academic curriculum and other social characteristics of applicants. Contrary to expectations, women obtained more call backs than male counterparts and graduates in a social or humanistic discipline were called back more than graduates in a scientific or technical one. Even the possession of a car was negatively evaluated by recruiters. As expected, instead, foreign-born candidates obtained far less call backs than Italian ones. A multivariate analysis drew us to the conclusion that the largest part of online posts was destined to candidates who belonged to intermediate categories, that is, to candidates being the best once the bottom and the top candidates were skimmed. The worst candidates were excluded for intuitive reasons, while the excellent ones – we conjecture – were left aside because recruiters guessed they would demand more than companies were available to give. These outcomes could help graduates in their duty of preparing an ad hoc CV.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-824422022-06-02T04:10:51Z Chapter The top candidate is an intermediate one: An analysis of online posts of Veneto industries Fabbris, Luigi Online posts Correspondence study Social discrimination Fresh graduates Bogus CV The paper describes the results of an experimental study carried out by sending bogus CVs in response to online posts. To each post related to a job vacation in a Veneto industry a number of five CVs was created and sent. The CVs were created so to experimentally evaluate the likelihood of discrimination against certain categories of candidates. The variability of call back rates of the addressed industries was analysed to elicit possible relationships between recruiters’ taste and gender, nationality, academic curriculum and other social characteristics of applicants. Contrary to expectations, women obtained more call backs than male counterparts and graduates in a social or humanistic discipline were called back more than graduates in a scientific or technical one. Even the possession of a car was negatively evaluated by recruiters. As expected, instead, foreign-born candidates obtained far less call backs than Italian ones. A multivariate analysis drew us to the conclusion that the largest part of online posts was destined to candidates who belonged to intermediate categories, that is, to candidates being the best once the bottom and the top candidates were skimmed. The worst candidates were excluded for intuitive reasons, while the excellent ones – we conjecture – were left aside because recruiters guessed they would demand more than companies were available to give. These outcomes could help graduates in their duty of preparing an ad hoc CV. 2022-06-02T04:10:50Z 2022-06-02T04:10:50Z 2022-06-01T12:21:13Z 2021 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855184618_565 2704-5846 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56380 9788855184618 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82442 eng Proceedings e report open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56380/1/26223.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8.05 10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8.05 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855184618 6 Florence open access
spellingShingle Online posts
Correspondence study
Social discrimination
Fresh graduates
Bogus CV
Fabbris, Luigi
Chapter The top candidate is an intermediate one: An analysis of online posts of Veneto industries
title Chapter The top candidate is an intermediate one: An analysis of online posts of Veneto industries
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title_short Chapter The top candidate is an intermediate one: An analysis of online posts of Veneto industries
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Correspondence study
Social discrimination
Fresh graduates
Bogus CV
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Correspondence study
Social discrimination
Fresh graduates
Bogus CV
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