Thursday, June 26, 2008

Just take the "black" or "hispanic" or "latino" or "gay" out of your resume

Could you imagine a major newspaper, magazine, or media outlet suggesting one of those courses of action ... in order to make your resume "portray a modern image?"

And yet, that's precisely what today's Wall Street Journal suggests in "Botox for the Resume: One Woman's Image Makeover."

It's not just offensive it's utterly REVOLTING and should be ILLEGAL in the context of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act. Period.

Is this what we have to look forward to now that Murdoch owns the WSJ? That's another topic altogether.



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Unknown said...

I know this was posted a year or two ago, but wow! You really missed the point of the article.

The point of the article was that employers aren't necessarily biased against age, but against people that can't keep a contemporary mindset. The world has changed so much in the past 15 years, and people that haven't kept up are less useful to many businesses.

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