Basically this is testing whether putting forward a gender idealised vision of the self is seen as a negative, and nothing at all to do with non-binary identification.
A friend of mine who works in recruiting won’t extend interview offers to people who call out their pronouns in their resume/email signature. That also goes for people who include photos of themselves, calling out their age, or include their race in a resume or cover letter. If you call out that you are a protected class in your resume, you just told your interviewers that you are. A lot of HR people won’t touch that with a 10ft pole, because that now brings the question of did your declaration alter the judgement of those that interviewed you? That is why the EEO parts are usually not shown to the hiring manager.
>The only difference between the test and control resumes was the presence of gender pronouns on the test version,” McGonagill said in the report. “The test resume included “they/them” pronouns under the name in the header.” **She/her and he/him pronouns were not tested.**
I don’t think it’s obvious that they/them pronouns were specifically targeted, or the fact that there were pronouns on the resume at all.
Hiring managers see “they/them” and assume the person will be difficult to work with. The moment they’re misgendered whether purposefully or accidentally they’ll raise hell. So people would rather swerve on those type of candidates.
You aren’t supposed to put identifiers that may show you are a protected class or particular religion etc on a resume. Hell if you are over 40 you aren’t supposed to put the year you graduated college or high school on a resume
No_Bend8 says
But honestly why would this be on a resume?
McRambis says
Who uses “he or she” in a resume? I don’t even use “I” on my resume.
My experience would say “Managed large-scale projects. . .”
I would not say, “I managed. . .” and would certainly not say, “He managed. . .”
han_bylo says
Who feels the need to put their pronouns on a resume?
escape1979uk says
INCREDIBLY salient information here:
“She/her and he/him pronouns were not tested.”
Basically this is testing whether putting forward a gender idealised vision of the self is seen as a negative, and nothing at all to do with non-binary identification.
Firm_Transportation3 says
Hiring has been like this forever. People with “White sounding” names are more likely to get interviews than those with “black sounding” names.
Creative_Sprinkles says
A friend of mine who works in recruiting won’t extend interview offers to people who call out their pronouns in their resume/email signature. That also goes for people who include photos of themselves, calling out their age, or include their race in a resume or cover letter. If you call out that you are a protected class in your resume, you just told your interviewers that you are. A lot of HR people won’t touch that with a 10ft pole, because that now brings the question of did your declaration alter the judgement of those that interviewed you? That is why the EEO parts are usually not shown to the hiring manager.
IMovedYourCheese says
>The only difference between the test and control resumes was the presence of gender pronouns on the test version,” McGonagill said in the report. “The test resume included “they/them” pronouns under the name in the header.” **She/her and he/him pronouns were not tested.**
I don’t think it’s obvious that they/them pronouns were specifically targeted, or the fact that there were pronouns on the resume at all.
bigbear32421 says
Hiring managers see “they/them” and assume the person will be difficult to work with. The moment they’re misgendered whether purposefully or accidentally they’ll raise hell. So people would rather swerve on those type of candidates.
Henarth says
You aren’t supposed to put identifiers that may show you are a protected class or particular religion etc on a resume. Hell if you are over 40 you aren’t supposed to put the year you graduated college or high school on a resume
JonesyOnReddit says
lol, before looking at the article I thought they wrote the whole resume in 3rd person. I wouldn’t hire such a person either!
rabidantidentyte says
If you’re referring to yourself in the 3rd person on a resume, you may be overlooked for entirely different reasons.
Wolfenberg says
Not oniony
Topsyye says
I don’t think I’ve ever put my gender on my resume, aren’t there forms for that when your applying anyway? Like a box you check?
dreburden89 says
Your pronouns are none of a prospective employer’s business, cisgender or otherwise. Why would you put them on a resume??
Rawlus says
i’ve never used pronouns on a resume or Cv.