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LINKEDIN NOW ALLOWS COMPANIES TO FILTER JOB CANDIDATES BY RACE
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Posted on 05/07/2023 11:44:17 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

An update to the LinkedIn employment service allows recruiters to filter job candidates by race.

The move was made in the name of diversity, reports The Daily Wire.

Users now have the option to “allow demographic information to be used in LinkedIn recruiting features to help recruiters find a more “diverse group of qualified candidates.”

Specifically, a user can highlight their race, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation to help them land a job.

(Excerpt) Read more at outkick.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: linkedin; racism; segregation
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To: PAR35
Bad idea. Creates an electronic trail. Too many chances to exclude someone with more points. Or at least enough points to sue.

This will make it very easy for people to run the classic blind test, filing multiple applications that differ only in the racial box checked.

21 posted on 05/07/2023 12:01:25 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Shadow44

“Whites are not a protected category under the Civil Rights Act.”

Exactly.

That is what those “mean” southern senators said in 1964.

It was always anti-white racism.


22 posted on 05/07/2023 12:02:26 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: PAR35

Corporate America now aems to embrace bad ideas.


23 posted on 05/07/2023 12:03:02 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

They have only done this because they believe it will get non-standard people more jobs and enable recruiters to skip those evil White/Christian/males.

Sauce for the goose. Perhaps this feature can be used to skip over highly privileged members of government-certified victim groups.


24 posted on 05/07/2023 12:03:58 PM PDT by I want the USA back (No one is assigned sex at birth. One's sex is noted and recorded. My pronouns Haha, hehe, hoho, hoo )
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To: mewzilla

A lot will be said, but less software will be licensed.


25 posted on 05/07/2023 12:04:55 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: mewzilla

How many Fortune 500 companies authorize just the use of LinkedIn...?

Inquiring minds want to know.


26 posted on 05/07/2023 12:06:16 PM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I deleted my LinkedIn account years ago. It was a net negative.


27 posted on 05/07/2023 12:08:03 PM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: Brian Griffin

It’s getting dang difficult to be a recovering Luddite these days...

BTW, does this make anyone else think that people on LinkedIn aren’t customers or clients.

They’re the product.


28 posted on 05/07/2023 12:09:34 PM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Let’s get some more coloreds in here Phyllis.


29 posted on 05/07/2023 12:10:33 PM PDT by samadams2000
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To: mewzilla

And if a company authorizes the use of LinkedIn and only LinkedIn, what’s in it for the company?

And, if there is a benefit to the company, are employees clued in on it...


30 posted on 05/07/2023 12:14:25 PM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I am convinced that google, for many years, has been developing artificial intelligence to censor search results. It is relatively sophisticated and almost impossible to detect or prove definitively. The problem for them now is that they are stuck trying to catch up with chatGPT. Because their AI chatbot system sucks. Manipulating and censoring search results is very different from answering complex questions using a “large language model”. Hopefully they will be destroyed by their psychological manipulation efforts.


31 posted on 05/07/2023 12:14:28 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: mewzilla

Oh, boy...

Wondering if the 2016 timing of the acquisition is a coinkydink...


32 posted on 05/07/2023 12:18:10 PM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Job Recruiters = HR. One of the most worthless and counterproductive organizations in business.

As for LinkedIn, it has always at best a nest of lies and distortions. I had a LinkedIn profile at the end of my career and quickly recognized the quid pro quo game of recommending others skills. Looking at my profile you would have thought I was a geothermal nuclear economist brain surgeon practicing software engineering. It was just keeping up with the Joneses.

I am so glad I am retired.

33 posted on 05/07/2023 12:18:36 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: Red in Blue PA

This is what institutionalized racism AGAINST white people looks like.


34 posted on 05/07/2023 12:18:59 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I’m registered on LinkedIn by a guy who’s been dead 20 years. My peers know how to look me up. Screw the rest. It provides me privacy with observation.


35 posted on 05/07/2023 12:19:04 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) We're all Women now.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

There are (virtually) no American technical recruiters anymore. And the Indian recruiters will not place/hire Americans.


36 posted on 05/07/2023 12:20:28 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: Red in Blue PA

They don’t seem to realize that this exposes who the privileged really are. They would be the ones highlighting or drawing attention to their race to get perks and privileges.


37 posted on 05/07/2023 12:20:59 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: jroehl
And the Indian recruiters will not place/hire Americans.

Well, it took me a while, but I got placed by one of those Indian firms. It helped that the hiring manager for the client is Slovakian, and he appreciated my "communication ability".
38 posted on 05/07/2023 1:20:13 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Red in Blue PA

Wait until someone has the unmitigated gall to request only white heterosexual males for a position.

THEN the excrement will hit the oscillating air moving device!


39 posted on 05/07/2023 1:37:37 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

You being placed by an Indian recruiter is very rare. And I bet you noticed, if you do happen to get into an Indian shop, you will be treated like a second class citizen, no matter what your skill level or experience is.


40 posted on 05/07/2023 1:42:37 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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