José Zamora was looking for a job for months, at one point sending out what he estimated to be between 50 and 100 resumes a day. Then he decided to drop one letter (and an accent) from his first name, and his resume started getting responses almost immediately. As he explains in the Buzzfeed video above, Zamora didn't change anything else on his resume except that one small tweak, but it was enough to Anglicize his name - and apparently his qualifications - to employers. Joe's story should be surprising, but it's not. As The Huffington Post points out, one study -...
- 9/3/2014
- PEOPLE.com
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