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:How can they do this

[middlemen]

I mean, seriously, its like none of their freakin business. Doesnt this help kill 'free enterprise' or deminish capitalism? This is like communist USSR here.

Looking at the way USA is moving now (with Iraq and other slimy/greasy/"oil"-y politics), I wonder if they ever had anything against USSR being communist. Maybe "communism" was just a distraction thrown towards the Americans so that USA could beat USSR in doing stuff. All USA wanted to be was the biggest superpower and ruler nation of the world, and it is right now. Who knows what these politicians are thinking!! Of course this is all science fiction in my mind.

Re:Ok, I'm lost.

[Soviet Assassin]

So in order to get a more diverse and random selection of applicants, we're going to shrink the qualified applicant pool by making it more difficult to apply for a job?

So, more poor people without jobs are going to have an even more difficult time trying to get a job? Way to go bush...