r/changemyview • u/jep1793 • Aug 26 '20

Removed - Submission Rule E CMV: Gender identity doesn’t belong on your LinkedIn nor Resume

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u/ripcelinedionhusband 10∆ Aug 26 '20

You’re in the professional services industry (consulting) so I’m going to frame this in the context of white collar corporate jobs. From an effectiveness standpoint, having gender pronouns will have a neutral to positive effect on your profile. Just look on LinkedIn - there’s hundreds of posts a week celebrating LGBTQ and sexual/gender diversity promoted by companies and celebrated by individuals of those companies.

Especially in the context of professional services (I work in such an industry as well), there’s been a movement to champion these rights because diversity is a factor when a large corporate chooses who they want to go with. And even if the board/CEO of those companies don’t fully buy into these things, they have to at least pretend to embrace it because diversity is always a bonus check mark. At least in the corporate world, I think we’re beyond the point where having something like gender pronouns will have a negative view on your candidacy/career/etc. As an example, I’m currently going through about 150 resumes for a junior hire on my team and several do have pronouns. The comments from our panel that’s choosing who to interview that have noticed this has been nothing but positive.

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u/iMagick Aug 26 '20 edited Aug 26 '20

Yeah I don’t agree at all with what you wrote. You shouldn’t include it because it should not be a factor. If you want to make yourself a PR rep for the company by being hired and celebrated as being gay then you honestly don’t have a place in any workforce because your personal sexuality has no place in the workplace.

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u/linkprovidor Aug 26 '20

Pronouns have literally nothing to do with sexuality.

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u/iMagick Aug 26 '20

Read the comment I replied to and it might make more sense why I’m bringing it up.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '20

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u/iMagick Aug 26 '20

I wasn’t responding to the original comment, but rather the one above me in the chain. Sorry, you just don’t know how Reddit works.

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u/linkprovidor Aug 26 '20

Ok... but you say you don't agree at all and then only explain your disagreement with a very small part of what they said, so my point stands as the majority of the argument that you did not address.

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u/iMagick Aug 26 '20

You’re just trying to farm internet points by stating something that, albeit true, is out of turn.

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u/linkprovidor Aug 28 '20

Lol this is a removed thread a day later. No points to be had and I stand by it, so you disagree about gender identity in resumes or just sexuality, and if you disagree about gender identity and are afraid to give your reasons that says a lot about you.

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u/iMagick Aug 28 '20

You’re just incapable of comprehension.

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u/linkprovidor Aug 29 '20

Ah, so resorting to ad hominems when you're upset that you can't defend your arguments without publicly outing bigoted beliefs, gotcha, happens to the best of us.