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"Select your ethnicity and sex"

Started by StallingsBaldSpot, Jun 24 2012 10:42 PM

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Posted 24 June 2012 - 10:42 PM

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Quick question, when applying for a job, do you answer this question truthfully or do you mark the selection "Prefer not to disclose this information at this time."

reason being, I am applying for a job right now and being that I am a white male, I often wonder if this could hurt me in the hiring process.

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Posted 24 June 2012 - 10:47 PM

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Check the box marked "other"...

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Posted 24 June 2012 - 11:35 PM

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Dunno. I usually check "prefer not to answer" because I don't want to be sifted out of the selections for interview because they already had too many white males interviewing.

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 01:03 AM

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Statistically speaking, being white and male is far more likely to help you than hurt you

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 04:22 AM

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I'm spoken for now; but back in the day I usually wrote in my answers to questions like that. For ethnicity, I wrote in "most" and for sex I wrote in "If I can talk them into it.".

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 06:02 AM

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checking the prefer not to say box just means your white anyway. Are you planning on wearing a mask to the interview?

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 06:47 AM

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I always check Latino, Asian, Native American Inuit female. That way I don't have to list any qualifications to get the job.

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 07:02 AM

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One thing to worry about....if you check "white", those black helicopters might come to get you.

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 10:53 AM

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I usually choose sex with no regard to ethnicity.....I guess i'm an equal opportunity :lanekiffin:

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 11:01 AM

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NextYearIsHere, on 25 June 2012 - 01:03 AM, said:

Statistically speaking, being white and male is far more likely to help you than hurt you

This is far from a racial issue in my mind, but I would beg to differ in higher minority areas such as mine in West Alabama.

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 11:16 AM

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 12:57 PM

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Tider27, on 25 June 2012 - 11:01 AM, said:

This is far from a racial issue in my mind, but I would beg to differ in higher minority areas such as mine in West Alabama.

Everything is relative, but going on stats, being a white male is winning the gender/sex lottery. Clearly if you want to be a newscaster on BET or a kindergarten teacher however, a certain race or gender is generally preferred over others. But on the whole I doubt telling the truth about yourself is really going to hurt you here

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 03:20 PM

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 03:30 PM

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I think the right question is, do you want to work for a company that will not hire you because you are white male?

Answer honestly. It's not like they aren't going to find out.

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 03:51 PM

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I really don't understand the use of the question since most companies advertise they don't discriminate. Hell, what is white? I'm scottish, english, french and indian. Mom was catholic dad was baptist. When i'm depressed I feel like I was an accident in the french and indian war that occured on a night somebody yelled hail mary in an underground bar.

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