RE: Hiring Discrimination?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Kudos to Gene for focusing on the ethical issues.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Kim-Eng
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2:20 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Hiring Discrimination?
> 
> I could probably make myself crazy thinking about all the ways 
> I could be discriminated against, starting off with the fact that
> my name at the top of my resume shouts out my ethnicity.  The
> dividing line I draw in my personal and business life is that I
> choose to ignore the possibility of discrimination against me
> during the process of job searching and interviewing (there
> are enough companies out there that really put what I can do
> for them at the top of their priority lists and I don't need the
> ones that don't messing with my head), but as an employee 
> and a manager I will speak up if I believe I see it in my 
> company's policies and I regularly self-examine my own 
> internal candidate selection criteria to ensure that I am not 
> falling into certain patterns of thinking I find unacceptable.  
> I can't fix the world or a company I don't work for, but I 
> sure as hell don't have to let myself become part of the 
> problem.
> 

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