Comment by offtop5
4 years ago
Would love an option to remove photos.
Employment discrimination is absolutely rampant, and I would hate for someone who is perceived by Western society to be more attractive to be given a leg up on platforms like this. Scary enough the first thing many people do on dating apps is to hit the ethnic filter button ( proud to say I've been social media / dating app free for years), but now that same mindset's going to get applied to hiring people.
If a youngish recruiter spends all day filtering out certain people on his dating apps, when he hops on LinkedIn or this thing here he's going to instinctively keep filtering people out. if someone's not physically attractive to you that absolutely should not have any role in their qualifications, if I ran the world photos on LinkedIn and this would be illegal since it's just an easy way to discriminate against people.
Hiring, by definition, is mostly discrimination.
Otherwise, people would just hire the first person you received a resume from who had the solid qualifications and experience you needed.
But no...of course that's not what happens. Managers go through the Kabuki dance with the potential employee just trying to find a small "chink in the armor" to quickly disqualify them.
It's called the "initial screen" of course, and the whole point is to find something to "discriminate" against and eliminate the candidate. Please PLEASE do NOT reply to this message saying "oh discriminating is the wrong term I'm simply EVALUATING blah blah blah" Yes whatever you like to call it the end result is exactly the same.
Then, of course, the whole team does the same sort of "don't call it discrimination but if we notice some trait we don't like, we don't hire them" thing again.
Maybe it's their age, or hair, or the clothes they wear, or the way they talked, or didn't talk. Maybe even sometimes, because the person is broke and hungry and they came off wrong, because of course, they don't have any income, or took a risk in their lives that didn't pan out, or perhaps even had to take care of a dying parent for a while, and now have to struggle to come up with an explanation on why they weren't working for that time.
Maybe they even had a felony 20 years ago when they were totally different people...heaven forbid they did THAT because, of course, NO ONE in our amazing Foobar company EVER did anything illegal and didn't get caught!
So that's really just only a matter of bad luck, but yet it's an absolute KoD with getting hired these days.
What rarely ever happens, oddly enough, is to ask candidates to prove their programming skills with either a sample project or a trial period. This would seem like a very logical thing to do and it confounds me why it's not used more...and even if it is and the person aces the tests, if anything is found, well, discriminating about the candidate, well, we just cannot even take a chance on hiring them.
And even though almost 25% of all "sure-fire" hires won't work out and will be gone in a year[0], and there are literally a million tech jobs[1] that need to be filled this year, we just cannot even take a chance on hiring them rings over and over in the offices of the hiring managers. THAT...of all things to rant about, is the thing that baffles and frustrates me more than anything...
How can anyone ever prove they they can become a valuable part of the team if no one will ever give them a chance?
[0] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/software-had-the-highes...
[1] https://blog.hackerrank.com/unlocking-trapped-engineers/
> Hiring, by definition, is mostly discrimination.
Either you mean that "everyone discriminates illegally", in which case I'm glad we've never worked together, or you're equating "differentiating people at all" with discriminating against $PROTECTED_GROUP ", in which case, no.
> Otherwise, people would just hire the first person you received a resume from who had the solid qualifications and experience you needed.
...yes? How are you getting enough applicants to waste any?
I understand that the way my experiences has shaped my opinions and views is vastly different than yours, but since its 100% impossible to discern peoples motives on why they make certain decisions, how you be at all certain what's really going on there?
Living is discrimination.