U.S.Laws May Make Online Job Hunting Harder

j00bar writes "CNN/Fortune is reporting that applying for a job online is going to get harder. 'New federal guidelines meant to standardize how employers track data on the diversity of their job-applicant pool are taking effect starting today for jobs at federal contractors -- and similar rules will kick in later this year at U.S. companies with more than 50 employees. And resumes and search approaches that worked perfectly well before may no longer do the trick.'"

Comments

Re:Ok, I'm lost.

[mickyflynn]

by increased diversity they mean freezing out straight, white, christian males from the country that their straight, white, christian male ancestors founded in order to instill the rights they fought, and many died for, for themselves and their posterity (us). Diversity is just a code word for institutionalized racism against white people.

Re:Ok, I'm lost.

[Gulthek]

Ah, many more groups of people than straight, white, Christian males founded, fought for, died for, and built this great nation. Have you even studied US History? Have you even read a book on US History? Have you even glanced at the United States History wikipedia entry?

Re:Ok, I'm lost.

[zzyzx]

Yeah it's really rough to be a straight, white, Christian male in this country. It's too bad that no one who fits that profile could ever gain political power or be appointed to the Supreme Court or be in charge of a Fortune 500 company or anything like that.

What these rules do is reduce the advantage that the majority culture has, not to give an advantage to minorities. Sure, it feels bad to have that happen, but this is like someone being given a 30 meter advantage in a 100 meter dash and complaning because they used to get a 40 meter advantage.

Re:Ok, I'm lost.

[MightyMartian]

Ah yes, those poor suffering white people. Why, they worked so damn hard to a) kill millions of Native Americans (which the first right brilliant whites thought were Indians), b) bring in Africans to fill in the sudden drop in the cheap labor pool, c) declare those lucky Africans to be non-persons and property, d) have a few nasty wars against each other in which some whites convinced Indians that they were really friends before e) attempting to wipe them out of the Great Plains so that whites could move in.

You know, if white Europeans hadn't gone around and made their presence known throughout the entire planet by a combination of villainy, trickery and outright infamy, I might even agree with you, but seeing as how whites became rather notorious among a lot of people for their racist, self-serving, self-important attitudes, it's pretty tough to find a warm place now.

Re:Ah I see

[MightyMartian]

I offer an explanation. It's up to you decide what to do with it. You can reject the attrocities white Europeans committed, or make believe that they don't somehow relate to the world as it is today. That's your privilege.