All the education in the world won’t help you overcome the biases of hiring managers. In a hiring study focused on class and gender, the [...]
All the education in the world won’t help you overcome the biases of hiring managers. In a hiring study focused on class and gender, the [...]
This leads to further problems. When graduates with degrees are unable to find jobs, they end up in poor-fit jobs that they are overqualified for. Moreover, there is a bigger penalty today for graduates doing work that is “beneath” them. These factors are affected also by gender, but also by race – college-educated African-American and Hispanic people were around 9 percent more likely than their white counterparts to have jobs they are overqualified for.