{"id":1256,"date":"2014-11-10T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T08:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2014-11-10T03:40:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T03:40:23","slug":"1256","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2014\/11\/10\/1256\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting “Muslim” on Job Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to an article<\/a> by Cathy Lynn Grossman of Religion News Service, “Recent college grads, take note: Mentioning a campus religion group on your resume \u2014 particularly a Muslim club \u2014 may lead to significantly fewer job opportunities.”<\/p>\n

RNS reports, “Muslims faced the sharpest discrimination [in the South] with 38 percent fewer emails and 54 percent fewer phone calls to the voice mailboxes set up by the researchers.”<\/p>\n

What has been the job hunting experience for you and\/or your children? Do you identify as “Muslim” on your r\u00e9sum\u00e9 if it’s not relevant to the job opening?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to an article by Cathy Lynn Grossman of Religion News Service, “Recent college grads, take note: Mentioning a campus religion group on your resume \u2014 particularly a Muslim club \u2014 may lead to significantly fewer job opportunities.” RNS reports, “Muslims faced the sharpest discrimination [in the South] with 38 percent fewer emails and 54…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamophobia"],"yoast_head":"\nPutting "Muslim" on Job Applications - Islam In America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2014\/11\/10\/1256\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Putting "Muslim" on Job Applications - 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