Resumes

[flappist]

What is it with political correctness in resumes?

It is that time of year when squillions of people are sending off resumes in the hope they get a job interview.
These things contain hardly any useful information.
Name, list of certificates, what you think you can do and a list of referees (who will not say you are crap will they) is not of much use.

How about Gender? Age? Height? Weight? Location? Background? Smoker? Drivers Licence? Hobbies? Orientation etc etc.
This allows the employer to gauge whether on not you will fit in. There is no point employing someone if they will spend most of their time fighting with the customers/other staff/management over outside issues.
e.g. Ultra rednecks do not do well in multi racial "cosmopolitan" offices or rabid greenies do not do well when the rest of the staff's recreation is pig hunting.

Yes I know in this PC world these things cannot be asked because it is all naughty and private but if you are going to work in a place it is a good idea to be compatable the others there.

The nett result, and this is not just me but many others I know who employ staff, if you provide a PC resume with only the barest of info then you do not even get a look in. It goes straight in the bin or bit bucket.

If anything in a non PC resume prevents you getting an interview then you probably would not have got the job anyway and even if you did you would not last long.

Do yourselves a favour, you never know, you might just get a job......