You are encouraged to enter all opportunities believing in yourself and what you can achieve. The truth is that there will always be bias in recruitment and selection processes. It is up to you, to do the work, to put yourself in the best possible position to access your opportunity. This means being well prepared for the interview; researching the company, industry and of course the role.
You will need to make decisions about how you want to present yourself in order to create an impression of good fit, or whether you are going to present yourself without these considerations and know that a role that others perceive you of being a good fit, will come along.
Racial discrimination – Dr Iwi Ugiagbe-Green has written a book chapter in the SAGE Handbook of Graduate Employability on this very topic – do have a read!
Read:
The SAGE Handbook of Graduate Employability
Please read Chapter 17 – by Dr Iwi Ugiagbe-Green
Centring Racialised Experiences of Black Students to Mitigate Bias
within Graduate Labour Recruitment and Selection Processes
Watch this episode from Amol Rajan’s excellent BBC series ‘ Trying to brake the glass ceiling’ which explains that class based prejudice is a reality in graduate job recruitment.
But as ever, on STRIVE, this does not have to be your story! We try to help you understand the rules of the game and how better to play it!