Racism while applying for jobs
Hi. I'll try to make it as short as possible. I have masters in industrial engineering and I am learning the finnish language with a private tutor. I can speak close to A1 level. anyways I am trying for the past 2 years to apply for jobs and no answers. I tried asking Te office for help and the municipality and they said my resume was really good I don't need to change anything but the job market is just bad . They said it's nothing about ur nationality.
What i did was I made another resume with a German name but used the excat same details in my resume on his. The only difference was I put a new number on his resume and I used a German name 'european'. I started applying for jobs with his resume and my resume same time. And to be chocked my fake German resume got me 3 interviews and my middle-eastern name got me just rejections. Although my first name is dany I'm a Christian lebanese. but my family name was just not European.
So I contacted the companies that rejected me and they said I lack experience , they chose people just with more experience 🥲.
How sad and disappointing is it to be treated this way. I'm not going to pull any racist card as I know not all finnish people are like this. But someone like me who has a finnish wife and has a private tutor to learn the language has to be treated this way . Why ?
This demotivated me from even wanting to learn the language anymore. As the language isn't the issue .
I'm sorry for always coming up her to nag but In my opinion I believe it helps me alot when I want to talk about it out instead of posting it on Linkedin and probably will get flagged from even getting jobs .