Last week, an Umno-linked think tank, the Centre for Governance and Political Study, released a study on the issue of racial discrimination in the job market.
For example, as photos of the applicants were included, a control study should have been conducted without photos to see the differences. They only utilised one online job application portal, Jobstreet, and the report did not give the details of the companies the resumes were sent to. A major omission from the methodology is the manner in which the resumes were sent out as there was no clear mention of how companies are selected other than following what was presented by the online job portal.
Ethnicity is not merely the colour of a person’s skin. It is a combination of several factors including facial features and even naming conventions which this study seems to be making light of. The authors also failed to control the resumes’ design. Recruiters could have rejected the hijab-wearing candidate simply because it has pink circles which gives out a less professional outlook.This can be seen when we compare the resumes of Gabriel Liew with that of Thivakar Gunasegaran .
The authors also failed to account for the other differences in the resumes of Nur Sakinah and Zulaikha . The report included four anecdotal statements from an NST piece on workplace discrimination but it does not justify the inclusion of these particular anecdotes in the report. “We wanted to see if a candidate’s fluency in Mandarin really played a key role in getting a job. As highlighted above, many private sector companies argue that they do many dealings with China-based companies, so they would rather hire a Mandarin-fluent candidate.
Can’t accept the truth, huh?
what flaw? Use your own research, findings and data to counter the study. Justify your hypothesis and present it.
The article pointed the flaws and your comment pointed to another end....use your brain lah before commenting.
Why are Chinese people so racist? Just wanna live among themselves, just wanna work among themselves, just wanna study among themselves. Seems like 3000 year old hardcore Chinese racism is well-tolerated by Muslim-majority Malaysia. Won't happen in Buddhist Myanmar!
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