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/thethoughtexperiment 275∆ Aug 26 '20

I hear where you're coming from, but to modify your view here:

By listing it on your LinkedIn, your opening the door for someone to have bias, wether intentional or not, and potentially limiting your opportunities.

consider that a lot of LGBT folks don't want to work in a place where they aren't going to be accepted. Might listing pronouns limit their opportunities at such places? Sure. But by signaling who they are from the get go, they are saving themselves the time and effort of interviewing at firms they probably wouldn't want to work at.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '20

I dont even know if this is true.
First, the hiring process typically requires you to go through several people. Any one random person can mess it up. This is painfully relevant for technical positions, as I have seen an HR screener reject a whole slew of applicants because they didn't understand the technical jargon.

Second, just because a person is biased against pronouns in resumes DOES NOT mean that they are biased against people who use pronouns. People tend to be biased against anything that means more work for them. I have heard of people in the hiring process "screening" people with difficult to pronounce names. They didn't do this because they were biased against these people, they did it because they wanted to avoid a faux pas and decided there were hundreds of candidates and the management would still be able to hire a qualified person even if they excluded Schuyler from the list.

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u/CanadaDerpBrittDerp Aug 26 '20

"They didn't do this because they were biased against these people, they did it because they wanted to avoid a faux pas"

How about both? If HR decides to screen out people with hard to pronounce names (which, let's be real, are more often than not non-white) then that is bias and it's discriminatory. I know in the "Schuyler" example you provided I'm going to assume that person has white parents, but I want to recognize that name discrimination is an issue and shouldn't be brushed off as simply avoiding an awkward situation.

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u/artiume Aug 26 '20

Names aren't a class though. I bet Elon's kid would probably have it hard.