Half of all foreign students who apply for a traineeship have the suspicion of being discriminated. 20 per cent of them does deal with real discrimination. This was the result of the National Traineeship Poll 2011 among 1700 students.
The foreign students who think they are discriminated, don’t feel the need to adapt themselves in order to reduce the discrimination. A small part of them (18 per cent) does adapt themselves, especially during an interview for a job, by pretending to be someone else, or to change their name on their letter of application.
According to native students, interviews are just working out fine. Almost 80 per cent of those students doesn’t think that trainees are discriminated or rejected because of their origins. Only 4 per cent admits that foreign students are dealing with discrimination.
Of the foreign students, 65 per cent has difficulties with career opportunities after their traineeship, of the native students this percentage is only 56 per cent. The majority of the foreign students feels ‘mi-sused’ as cheap employee (47 per cent) while only 39 per cent of the native students feels this way.
