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Woke Folks Looking for Jobs: 'Report' Finds Resumes That Include 'They/Them' Are More Likely to be Overlooked
PJ Media ^ | 03/04/2023 | Rick Moran

Posted on 03/04/2023 4:42:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind

A report from Business.com finds that there is discrimination against “non-binary” people. At least, non-binary people believe there is discrimination. “Over 80% of nonbinary people believe that identifying as nonbinary would hurt their job search,” the report finds. Also, 51% believe their gender identity has “affected their workplace experience.”

Business.com sent out two identical “phantom” resumes to “180 unique job postings that were explicitly open to entry-level candidates” in an effort to test “whether or not the inclusion of gender-neutral pronouns impacts how employers perceive resumes.”

“Both featured a gender-ambiguous name, ‘Taylor Williams.’ The only difference between the test and control resumes was the presence of gender pronouns on the test version,” Ryan McGonagill said in the report. “The test resume included ‘they/them’ pronouns under the name in the header.”

“The phantom resume including pronouns received 8% less interest than the one without, and fewer interview and phone screening invitations,” according to CNBC’s “Make It.”

Eight percent is not a huge difference in such a small sample, especially when the “test” has no way to rule out other factors that may have impacted a manager’s decision not to call back. But the “test” was weighted to ensure the result desired by Business.com.

“We clearly have more work to do on several fronts. Over the past 10 years, DEIB efforts have been prioritized by many companies; however, the results of this study and past research show that teams in most industries aren’t proportionately representative of the U.S. population,” McGonagill tells CNBC Make It (emphasis added). “And worse, many people (like the nonbinary individuals we spoke with in our research) feel like they don’t belong.”


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: lgbtq; resume; woke
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To: SeekAndFind

If I saw that in a resume, it would immediately hit the shredder.


21 posted on 03/04/2023 5:14:07 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t overlook them. I look them over and drop them in the circular file.


22 posted on 03/04/2023 5:19:44 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: SeekAndFind

I am looking for new work over the past two months, it is horrible. Recruiters are the worst, there are some companies that appear especially infected.


23 posted on 03/04/2023 5:19:47 PM PST by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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To: SeekAndFind

You’d have to be nuts to hire one of those they/them gender people. And that’s because they are all uber-sensitive to any perceived slights.

Should you - or any supervisor - make even the slightest pronoun mistake, all hell would break loose. Lawsuits would appear aplenty!

Better to hire a some guy named Bubba, some guy who puts “attending tractor pulls” on his resume as his hobby.


24 posted on 03/04/2023 5:22:20 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If I get the opportunity, I was planning to put il/lui for my pronouns. Only foreign language that I know.


25 posted on 03/04/2023 5:25:57 PM PST by Rio
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To: Da Coyote

One yearHR gave me a stack of really good summer intern candidates. Several would have completed BSEE and enrolled in grad school, others were incoming seniors. I’d started making calls when HR guy left an urgent voicemail saying he’d given me the wrong list. I ignored it and made an offer to a really good candidate who accepted.

Of course he’d mistakenly given me the resumes he had pre-screened and rejected because of what was then known as “low EEO points” back then. My boss backed me up and the HR guy had to honor the offer I’d made. Only year the internship program wasn’t just a productivity-sucking babysitting exercise.


26 posted on 03/04/2023 5:32:08 PM PST by bigbob
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To: NewHampshireDuo

All engineers?


27 posted on 03/04/2023 5:34:44 PM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: SeekAndFind
They fail to realize, there are all forms of discrimination, in business hiring practices.

Just take a look at help wanted ads, to see the discrimination. It is the list of things you need to be considered for the position.

They want people to believe, that, only, pronouns are being used to discriminate, against, those that use them, on their resume.

28 posted on 03/04/2023 5:51:43 PM PST by Ez2BRepub (on't know)
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To: Leaning Right

Exactly what I was thinking.
It’s a sign of liberalism.
Which, when infecting your workplace in any significant quantity (and just one of these would be a significant quantity) you’re asking for drama that would make Peyton Place look like The 3 Stooges.


29 posted on 03/04/2023 6:03:51 PM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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They/them is a guaranteed future lawsuit


30 posted on 03/04/2023 6:09:25 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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If somebody insists I refer to them as they/them, I insist they refer to me as the schlong lord of the fifth dimension


31 posted on 03/04/2023 6:15:03 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: John Milner

> Which, when infecting your workplace in any significant quantity (and just one of these would be a significant quantity) you’re asking for drama that would make Peyton Place look like The 3 Stooges. <

You’ve got that right. A couple of years ago I was in an electronics store. An employee came over to help me. And he really was a help! So I said, “Thank you, sir.”

Well, this guy (and it was a guy) went nuts. “I am a lady,” he yelled at me. My arthritis was acting up that day, so I decide to just calmly retreat. I wasn’t in the mood for a confrontation. But, wow. I sure do sympathize with this guy’s/gal’s supervisor.


32 posted on 03/04/2023 6:17:40 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Pronouns” have zero business being on a resume. What kind of retard puts that on a resume?


33 posted on 03/04/2023 6:19:38 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bkmk


34 posted on 03/04/2023 7:14:19 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: SeekAndFind

To be fair, they should send these resumes to corporations that are expressly “woke”, to see if they are hypocritical.


35 posted on 03/04/2023 7:40:42 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: SeekAndFind

A Millennial Job Interview 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo0KjdDJr1c

Imagine this with a really crazy person who says they or them or it etc. as their name. One who will explode if you say maam instead to a woman or sir to a guy.


36 posted on 03/04/2023 11:05:09 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Chickensoup

Yes, all engineers.


37 posted on 03/05/2023 5:21:55 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo ( )
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To: NewHampshireDuo

Interesting. Most trans not all are people with problems with social cues and obsessive thinking.

Sometimes these are traits found in engineers.


38 posted on 03/05/2023 5:45:30 AM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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