Sentences with phrase «of black applicants»

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This was true whether a black applicant wanted to buy a house, refinance an existing loan or take out a home equity line of credit.

It said an internal review of its lending patterns found that, after taking into account creditworthiness, its black and Latino applicants were no more likely to be denied loans than white applicants.

If it is desirable for Harvard Law School to reject every white applicant whose credentials fall within a certain range while accepting every similarly qualified black applicant, why not apply this practice to the entire range of applicants, and reject all whites for a period of several years?

With 14 applicants vying for a seat left vacant by outgoing board president Sam Black in Glen Ellyn District 41, school board members this week selected Cathryn Wilkinson, the former associate dean of Fine and Applied Arts at the College of DuPage to fill the spot.

The federal courts found the Grand Street projects themselves, run by Silver allies, discriminated against black and Latino applicants in a suit that named Ralph Lippman, the father of the chief judge, as a defendant.

Lastly, many black Bronx residents complain about being denied housing in favor of hispanics applicants.

The pool of eligible teaching candidates plunged by 20 percent in the exam's first year, and many blamed the test for inordinately disqualifying black and Latino applicants.

Applicants will be judged on their academic and civic achievement and on the quality of their written submissions as to what Black History Month means to them.

Because black and Hispanic youth represented only 7 % of the top decile of test - takers, they represented a minority of most subgroups of applicants, even low - income applicants.

► «Armed with new data showing black applicants suffer a 35 % lower chance of having a grant proposal funded than their white counterparts, NIH officials are gearing up to test whether reviewers in its study sections give lower scores to proposals from African - American applicants,» Jeffrey Mervis wrote on Thursday.

Black R01 applicants published a similar number of articles compared with white applicants (13.7 compared with 14.3, respectively), whereas Hispanic and Asian applicants on average published more articles than white applicants (17.8, P <.01, and 28.8, P <.001, respectively).

An analysis, performed by a team of researchers primarily supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in this issue of Science, reveals that from 2000 to 2006, black (1) grant applicants were significantly less likely to receive NIH research funding than were white applicants.

«To the best of our knowledge this study is the first to use a resume audit design to study labor market outcomes for Hispanic applicants in comparison to black and white applicants.

For example, Devine and Cox decided that having a «black» applicant who was trained at an Asian university might arouse suspicions among reviewers and jeopardize the integrity of the study.

«We couldn't send an equal number of black and white applicants because it wouldn't have been believable,» Devine explains.

The key difference was the name, chosen so that the reviewers might infer the race — white or black — and gender — male or female — of the applicant.

The UCAS report shows that for Black and Minority Ethnic applicants there has been a fall in applications by 9 %, on top of a decrease from prospective mature students by 16 %.

Individuals are more likely to recruit those with experiences and backgrounds similar to their own.52 To counter this, some businesses now hold recruiting events at historically black colleges and universities, such as Howard University, to diversify their applicant pools.53 These events allow companies to be more selective among a larger, more diverse group of candidates.

Hispanic and Asians candidates were hired at a proportional rate to the number of applicants, making the imbalance unique to black teachers.

Teacher Diversity Efforts in Boston Michelle Healy Boston Public Schools identifies and offers «letters of reasonable assurance» of future employment to promising black applicants and students about to graduate from a teachers college.

Study of Fairfax County schools finds discrimination against black teacher applicants washingtonpost.com/local/educatio...

-- Woodrow Wilson The room on the first floor of the Barbour County Courthouse in the little town of Eufaula, Alabama, was normally the County Clerk's Office, but after it had closed for the day on August 2, 1957, it was being used by the county's Board of Registrars, the body that registered citizens so they could vote in elections — not that the Board was going to register any of the three persons who were applying that day, for the skin of these applicants was black.

The following figures show the average income of applicants living in Black Diamond who have applied for a loan using the Super Brokers» mortgage application.

Like Upstart, an Earnest personal loan goes beyond the black - and - white rigidity of credit score to consider different factors about applicants that make ideal borrowers.

1In 2009, only about 5 % of successful applicants to veterinary schools and colleges represented by the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) were Hispanic / Latino; about 5 % were Asian, and only about 2 % were African American / Black (AAVMC 2009).

The Luxury Card page also includes an unboxing video, offering Mastercard Black applicants a preview of the reception they will receive as new card members, including a personally signed welcome letter and an embossed black box with their new card nestled in foam padBlack applicants a preview of the reception they will receive as new card members, including a personally signed welcome letter and an embossed black box with their new card nestled in foam padblack box with their new card nestled in foam padding.

The latest silk round saw a record number of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) lawyers appointed as QCs, with success rates for BAME candidates rising on last year and bettering the equivalent rate for white applicants.

In early 2014, Minnesota's Democratic governor, Mark Dayton, met with representatives of the state's minority bar associations (Black, Asian, Hispanic, women, and LGBTQ) and urged them to recruit a greater number of applicants for judicial selection.

On John's larger point about using grades because they're a «safe» measure, I'd simply remind everyone that there were bad old days, when applicants to firms were judged on factors that were less than meritorious, and so if grades, dumb as they are, do nothing else they force a law firm to swallow hard before declining to hire a Black woman with a fist full of A + marks.

DOJ entrusted Allan to represent the United States in some of its most high profile cases including a large class action challenging the New York City Fire Department's (FDNY) pattern of discrimination against Black and Hispanic applicants - which settled for about $ 100 million - and the first - ever employment discrimination lawsuit that DOJ filed to protect the rights of a transgender individual.

[Footnote 14] In 1993 blacks constituted 1.1 % of law school applicants in that score range, though they represented 11.1 % of all applicants.

Target has agreed to pay $ 3.74 million to settle claims that its background criminal checks discriminated against thousands of black and Latino applicants.

There are many articles that coach job seekers on how to overcome the «black hole» of the applicant tracking system.

Even qualified applicants can find their application knocked out of the running and floating around in the infamous resume black hole if they didn't write their resume with the ATS in mind.

Create Your Keyword Kit Making your resume stand out, marketing your profile, being found in the market and getting past online applicant tracking systems (otherwise known as job board black holes) will require the right keywords throughout every aspect of your search.

Black and white, word - processed documents, whether printed or digital, are evolving into web - based versions that use a range of multimedia and graphics to present an applicant's work history and education.

To deal with the sheer onslaught of job applicants, most medium - and large - sized companies use an automated tracking system (ATS) to do the first screening of resumes and applications to decide which ones move forward for a further look by a human or fall into the «black hole,» the corporate database for rejected applications.

And, people who repeatedly apply for jobs without meeting the requirements end up on «black lists» of applicants to ignore permanently because they are too dumb or too clueless to read the job descriptions.

But then you enter the black hole of applicant tracking systems.

Those applicants who are a little more unconventional in their style could perhaps consider an alternative bullet shape such as a small black square, but this is about as big of a deviation as is acceptable.

This also gets you around the «black box» of the Applicant Tracking System although we will still ask you to apply via it.

But little by little this type of primary research — talking with lots of people — will lead you to a place that's probably going to be more right for you than anything you would find staying in reactive mode and sending your resume again and again into that black hole — the online jobs» Applicant Tracking System.

Although visiting job boards isn't a preferred job - search strategy — often likened to entering a «black hole» due to the inherent competition and lack of responses from employers — your reply will gain immediate attention and place you ahead of the other applicants.

Continue to utilize the information available with your LinkedIn profile to make new contacts in the industry and to get to the source of the hiring process at the employer so that your application and resume doesn't fall into a black hole with hundreds of other job applicants.

«While it may seem as though your resume goes into a black hole, never to see the light of day again, it is typically kept in an employer's database, also known as an applicant tracking System (ATS),» says Kuehl, who has also held talent acquisition leadership roles in Fortune 500 companies, where applicant tracking systems are commonplace to manage large volumes of applications for job openings.

With unemployment rising, increasing numbers of applicants for each job, and recruiters struggling to keep up, it can sometimes feel as though you're sending your resume into a black hole.

Conventional loan applications from black applicants were rejected 13.3 percent of the time in 2015, compared with 5.7 percent for white applicants.