Minimize Religious References in Your Resume to Increase Responses

When personal beliefs and work collide, it can always bea tricky situation.

The reason, the study’s authors speculated, is not that employers dislike a particular religion.

Rather, secularization implies the declining influence of religion in everyday life and its disappearance from the public sphere.

Thus, from the perspective of secularization theory, even atheists are penalized.

However, as this andother studieshave noted, outlawing discrimination can’t always solve the problem.

Religious Affiliation and Hiring Discrimination in the American South: A Field Experiment| Sage Journals viaVox

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