Woman outraged CIBC job application suggests traditional regalia for video cover letter – CBC

Mar 21, 2022

Indigenous group creates questions for bank in effort to ‘remove barriers’ in application process

Christine Paquette was scrolling through an online job site when she came across a posting looking to recruit Indigenous people for customer service jobs at CIBC.

The 21-year-old Ojibway and Métis woman works as a part-time receptionist at an esthetics salon and was hoping to find a second job, one that could lead to a possible career.

“It seemed kind of like a good way to get my foot in the door,” Paquette said in an interview with Go Public from her home in Winnipeg.

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