{"id":93476,"date":"2026-08-28T07:20:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T07:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93476"},"modified":"2026-08-28T07:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T07:20:31","slug":"man-says-changing-his-african-name-on-his-resume-helped-him-finally-get-hired-mwangi-to-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/man-says-changing-his-african-name-on-his-resume-helped-him-finally-get-hired-mwangi-to-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Man says changing his African name on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 helped him finally get hired: &#8216;Mwangi&#8217; to &#8216;James&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2b02cj.img?w=768&h=512&m=6&x=256&y=128&s=285&d=285\" alt=\"Mwangi Wanjau \u00a9Via Mwangi Wanjau\/linkedin\" width=\"583\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A 28-year-old Kenyan man living in Canada says changing the African first name on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 to \u2018James\u2019 was what finally helped him get hired, after months of silence from employers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/general\/man-says-changing-his-african-name-on-his-r%C3%A9sum%C3%A9-helped-him-finally-get-hired-mwangi-to-james\/ar-AA2aZo2W?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a91357aee574583a83fee0e3a339a7b&ei=30\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A 28-year-old Kenyan man living in Canada says changing the African first name on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 to \u2018James\u2019 was what finally helped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Mwangi.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93478,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93476\/revisions\/93478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}