[6stringmerc]

I’m doing a long term (read: takes months to collect data) investigative journalism piece regarding hiring practices in the United States that tracks with your musing. As in, I’m using tools to actually document who obtained positions and comparing those visible profiles and credentials with the actual listing put out by companies. The motivation has been through personal experience and seeing…patterns…that I wish to document to the best of my ability in a professional writing project.

I’d be willing to expand my scope if there is interest by any group or entity to support such a project - as in, expand my pool of people actively seeking and applying for jobs (in my case about 10 per week, all within reasonable % of qualification) to explore if data reveals any patterns. It’s a nuanced thing. Basically poking a hole in the “meritocracy” narrative is potentially able to expose other bias at play (age, gender, ethnicity) with a willingness to put such findings into a well researched article / study.

[pogue]

I'm unable to support, but can you share where you'll be publishing this so I can see it when it goes up?

[6stringmerc]

Found a flaw in my methodology but I’m continuing to work on it and unfortunately don’t have a timeline. I may need to partner with an established outlet to access the resources to get the data needed.

That said, I do have an article coming very soon about a related aspect of the application process.

[pogue]

Do you have a website/newsletter/social media or anything so I can find out when it gets eventually published