Doing a short course atm. Was having a discussion around job applications and cover letters specifically.
We were told not to include any gendered terms, such as Sir/Madam, Mr/Ms, etc, because "In our modern era, you don't know whether the person you are addressing fits into those categories, even if you know their name" and "You should only ever use a first name, to avoid causing offence" (i.e. no "Mr Adams" or "Ms Smith")...
This is insane to me. I know this will obviously vary by country, but for an instructor to pass that off as some sort of "a given", or even like "You should already know that, you goddamn troglodyte" is... Pretty concerning, to me.
First it was "Use my preferred pronouns, bigot", and now it's "All gendered terms of address are offensive and outdated, bigot". In goddamn formal communications.
Madness. We really are at a cultural dead end.
Or you could deliberately use titles to weed out employers who put insane people in charge of HR.
Laughs in one-way video interviews Oh, it’s even worse than you imagine…
You literally have to film yourself answering the questions (at least some of), for most of these applications now, if you even get past the résumé stage…
Why? Well, you know why. They’ve thought of this too, I’m afraid…
So unless you want to wear blackface on video, or something, that “weeding out” stage is pretty much inevitable…
Post-Covid/Floyd, I might add…
I do not think that is a coincidence.
It’s mostly for “entry level positions”, which means that people who can avoid having to go for those may be able to avoid it, for now…
But yeah, I agree.
You’d be surprised by just how fucking apathetic they all are, though. Even when it comes to shit like this.
“Oh well, I suppose it’s only fair” or “I’m sure there’s a good reason for it”, or alternatively “Nah, that’s not why. They just want to see how you perform on camera!”
I’ve heard if all, now.
As with so much of this, by slowly boiling the frog, and treating dissenters (you and I, for example) as heretics, this shit slowly but surely becomes normalized, and “accepted” by the masses…
Unfortunately.
Yep. Since at least the last year or so…
You can’t get through to the next stage of the “recruitment process” without it, at these companies, now. And they put a restrictive time limit on it, too, so if you’re not “prepared”, you’re shit out of luck. It’s extremely annoying…