If you think the job marš²ketš is rough, trying sending out resumes with the name Saddam Hussain.
An Indian engineer with the unfoārtunate name is headed to court to get a new one because heās been turned down for more than 40ź¦ jobs, according to a report.
āPeople are scared to hire me,ā said Hussain, of Jamshedpur, whose grandpa graced him withź§ the resume-wrecking handle, .
Hussain, a 20-something who graduated from the privaš¬te school Noorul Islam University two years ago, said his classmates have had no trouble landing great careers all šover the world.
But after he was rejected from dozens of jobs, he called sš ome of the firms to find out why.
āI inquired with the HR departments of the companies and some of them told me my name was the problem,ā he told the paper. āI am an innocent victim of somebody elseās crimes.”
Some of the companies feared his name woāuld become a hassle when traveling for business to countries such as the U.S., he said.
Hussain ā who actually spells his surname slightly differently that the dead Iraqi despotšÆ ā now wants to change his first name to Sajid.
But heāsš been wrapped up in bureaucratic rź¦ ed tape for months.
A Jharkhand high court hearing is set for May 5 for theš name chāange.