"Sometimes I don't even think people know or are conscious or aware that they're judging – even if it's by name," said Zamora

Man Changes Name from 'José' to 'Joe,' Receives Many More Job Offers (VIDEO)

José Zamora was looking for a job for months, at one point sending out what he estimated to be between 50 and 100 resumes a day.

Then he decided to drop one letter (and an accent) from his first name, and his resume started getting responses almost immediately.

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As he explains in the Buzzfeed video above, Zamora didn’t change anything else on his resume except that one small tweak, but it was enough to Anglicize his name – and apparently his qualifications – to employers.

Joe’s story should be surprising, but it’s not. As The Huffington Post points out, one study – while a little dated (it’s from 2000-2002) – indicated that “resumes with white-sounding names received 50 percent more callbacks than those with black names.” And interviewees in a 2009 New York Times story about racial disparities in hiring admitted they’d altered their resume to conceal their race or “dial[ed] back the level of ‘blackness'” in their applications.

“Sometimes I don’t even think people know or are conscious or aware that they’re judging – even if it’s by name,” Zamora said. “But I think we all do it all the time.”

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