The Education Department has allowed seven student loan companies to resume submitting bills for payments under a government subsidy program that was created to promote access to higher education.
After her presentation, CVs and resumes, submitted by attendees prior to the meeting, were critiqued in front of the audience.
Moreover, in prior resume audit studies, information regarding whether a resume submitted receives a callback is retrieved from content of the voice message left by the employer.
The outcome used in prior resume audit studies (e.g., Bertrand and Mullainathan 2004; Kroft et al. 2013; Lahey 2008; Oreopoulos 2011) is if a resume submitted receives a callback for an interview.
Of 1938 resumes submitted, 50% are assigned foreign work experience, and conditional on being assigned foreign experience, 50% of the resumes are associated with the Singapore labor market experience and 50% with the Malaysia labor market experience.
To circumvent this issue and uncover an employer's interest in an applicant, I focus on the following outcome: if a resume submitted is the first to receive a callback for an interview.
As a robustness check, I also consider another outcome: if a resume submitted receives a callback for an interview conditional on employers calling back only one applicant out of two.
The resume audit study involved (1) submitting hundreds of fictitious resumes online in response to postings for skilled occupations (software developer and programmer, accountant, and engineer) by two kinds of employers (foreign and local) in the Myanmar labor market and (2) measuring callbacks for each resume submitted.
In addition, it appears that human resource managers are paying attention to resume characteristics: all else equal, if the pair of resumes submitted to a firm was such that the Han candidate had local education when the minority candidate did not, the firm was more likely to callback only the Han.
Individuals who are actively seeking job placement must make the effort to: be in contact with an employer, have job interviews, contact job placement agencies, send out resumes, submit applications, respond to advertisements, or some other means of active job searching within the prior four weeks.
