{"id":77198,"date":"2022-09-06T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=77198"},"modified":"2022-09-08T11:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T15:53:26","slug":"hiring-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/hiring-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hiring Bias Is Surprisingly Hurting These People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How does hiring bias affect different groups of workers? Why are educated (knowledge) workers experiencing more hiring bias currently?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Educated workers have been disproportionately trapped in long-term unemployment<\/a> because of biases potential employers have. These include age biases or the belief that something must be wrong with someone who\u2019s been out of work for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading to learn why the stigma of hiring bias is disproportionately affecting educated workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Hiring Bias for Educated or Older Workers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Workers with bachelor\u2019s degrees and older workers are disproportionately affected by long-term unemployment (LTU). Though they\u2019re unemployed at overall lower rates, hiring bias pushes those who are jobless to be so for more than six months<\/strong>. Of the 4.1 million in LTU as of last year, around 1.5 million are from white-collar occupations (approximately 37%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowledge Workers Face More Stigma<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Once the economy starts recovering from Covid-19, many workers in LTU will find jobs again, but the process might be harder for educated workers, older workers, and workers in white-collar professions<\/strong> because of the hiring bias stigma attached to LTU for those types of employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White-collar job seekers routinely run into a few repeated objections from potential employers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n