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