Honest and sensitive question about recruiter discrimination

Keep applying, it's all ANY of us do, whether our name is western, Arab, Jewish, or whatever.

And tell me, what would you do if they were your recruiters, working for your company, and you know they were being lied/tricked into talking to people you had no intention of hiring? Every 30 minute call is just over 6% of their day. Four calls like that and 25% of their day is gone. If they're hourly, that's time YOU have to pay them for that's going to produce NOTHING for you. If they're salaried, that's time THEY have to make up by foregoing time with their significant other, time with their family, time sleeping, etc. If it were YOUR company, how much time would you tolerate YOUR recruiters spending with people you quite literally CAN'T hire?

Arab name, born and raised in United States, I always check “No” for Sponsorship, and Yes for Citizenship. I have my US home address in my resume, I have US Citizen bolded in my resume.

If you answer those two questions like that, whether or not your resume says citizen or not, I'm talking to you if you're qualified. But you can bet your ass I'm prioritizing what I think are applicants that are lower risk in that regard. And what else am I supposed to do? I do NOT have limitless amounts of time, so how much of it should I spend talking to people I can't hire? 25%? 50%? I ruined your week? I get my week ruined every damn day when one kid right out of school applies to EVERY job in my company and lies on his dozen or so applications and now, for the positions he's even remotely qualified for, I have no choice, I HAVE to talk with him. If that were the position you were in, do you think you'd find a way to make sure his resume was the last one you looked at for the day?

Most of the time I can't stand other recruiters, but on this one it's a load of crap. We need to earn a living and eat too, and we can't do that if we spend significant amounts of time talking to people we can't hire.

And again I ask, what would you do if you were the recruiter, or the one paying the recruiter? Would you pay them to juggle sacks of bird seed? It's got the same chance of producing a hire as spending time on the phone with someone who needs a sponsorship you're not able to pay for. Yeah, it sucks for you that people are making those decisions based on your name and not reading your resume, if it really says citizen then I'd be talking to you. But for the love of God are you honestly saying I 'ruined your week' because I have the sheer unmitigated gall to suggest that spending significant amounts of time speaking with people I can't hire isn't a good way to spend my time, and I try to avoid it?

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