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Re:U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination by grepthisab on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:58PM (#13431271)
It's difficult. I remember coming out of school, employers tried to anonymize for various things, especially with respect to things like race. Black students would, in an anonymized resume with contact info removed for example, state that they were "Treasurer for the Black Students Association" or "NAACP Volunteer", or things to that effect.

My point is that I think that an Asian person, applying to a company known to be favorable toward Asians in hiring, would signal their ethnicity somehow in their resume. At least, that would be the smart play for that person.

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Re:U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination by saulrh on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @06:08PM (#13431348)
Build a loop into the workflow for "You're insufficiently anonymous, resubmit", with a special way to enter "significant award/position/membership with deanonymizing title, X level of prestige/selectivity/membership"? Might be valuable anyway so you don't accidentally get peoples' personal biases into play - different people will weight "NAACP award" very differently.
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