A word of advice if you are responsible for hiring and training staff at your workplace: Find a way to review the content of resumes before looking at the applicants' names. A person's name says almost nothing about them. It was chosen for them by their parents many, many years before they became the person they grew up to be. And yet, many hiring managers (myself included) will make judgements based on a person's name. My personal weakness was unique names or names with unique spellings (Teylor, for example). If you toss a resume because you made a judgement based on the person's name instead of the content of their resume, you might miss out on some hidden gems. One of the best people I have ever hired was a young lady named, and I am not joking, Lucifer. She went by Lucy but thought she *had* to put her given name on her resume.

I agree on that, but as someone who is actually named Ophelia, and that is a pretty normal name, i already have trouble doing anything because half of the planet seems to ignore it's existence. I spend half of my time arguing with people who tell me things like "nice try but your joke is not funny" "that's not a name" "okay, you're real name now ? Let's be serious." Coupled with the fact i'm a 20 years old looking 14, almost all the people who don't have a weird reaction to my name say "oh, like -insert that singer i despise." For the child's sake, avoid uncommon named.

Lol @ the Meghan Trainor reference. Now the song is on a loop in my head.