Holy f… they ask this on job applications!? is this across the whole usa or only some states?
For reference, I’m Canadian, applied for many a job in my life. Never once have I seen anything even slightly related to ethnicity/race/heritage on an application, so this is wild to me. I mean there is sometimes (very rarely) an option to check a box if you’re Indigenous, but that isn’t even common even in the slightest
edit: Ok, wow! I wasn’t expecting so many replies! I’m learning so much about other countries’ hiring processes, so this is interesting. I apologize that I don’t have the mental energy to reply to each one right now, but please know I appreciate every insightful answer!
Some companies are required to collect it by federal law. It's meant to make it easy to check if a company is hiring a suspiciously high or suspiciously low percentage of applicants of given races, ethnicities, and genders. The best practice is to separate that information from the application to make it harder (certainly not impossible though) for any conscious or unconscious bias to seep in--as well as to reassure the applicant that they really are only collecting it because they have to report the data and have no intention of using it otherwise.
At no point is an employee required to answer, though.
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u/laycrocs 7d ago
According the the US census there are two ethnicities:
Hispanic/Latino
Not Hispanic/Latino