Twenty years ago, Sajida Hussain approached the reception desk of an assessment centre and said she was there for an interview. Despite wearing a suit, Hussain was asked if she was in the right place. ‘To me it felt like they saw what I looked like,’ she says, referring to her ethnicity and hijab, ‘and it felt like, from their perspective, I didn’t deserve to be there.’
As a young university student, Hussain already felt out of place, and though she knows the comment was likely not malicious, it amplified what she was already thinking. ‘It doesn’t put you in good stead for your interview when you’re trying to make a good impression,’ she explains.
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