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Originally Posted by polak
See. Sensitivity clouds logic.
In my scenerio, in no way is the person that is native and being asked to provide proof being hurt or really affected in any unexpected way.
The ad stated that a High School Diploma is a requirement and they should be prepared to provide it. Budget constraints say you can only do so many checks and you have statistical evidence saying that the person that is native has a smaller chance of posesing that diploma (or whatever race, or burden of proof you want to interchange into this argument, You could make it polish people and malaysians needing to prove they can actually hula dance for all I care).
When they walk through your door, there is an equal chance that either group is lying. They all give outstanding interviews. The only thing you have to base your decision on is numbers and apperance and your choice really makes no impact on the persons life.
Why on earth wouldn't you use what you have to help you make a choice on who to verify?
Thats also why I used it.
As you can tell I'm pretty laissez faire about this crap. People are too sensitive.
Yup. If you only had time to check a finite amount of people, why on earth wouldn't you use such knowledge to your advantage? The people you profile aren't losing anything or being hurt in anyway outside of maybe being slightly offended that someone had the balls to profile. They'll get over it.
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Um, aren't the people you're profiling (who are likely unemployed if they are applying for your position) being forced to incur the cost of an apparently very expensive diploma verification procedure (indeed, so expensive that the prospective employer cannot even afford to do it!)? How is that not losing anything or not being hurt? Presumably at least some of these applicants (especially because aboriginal and first nations families are on average less wealthy than non-aboriginal families) will not be able to afford this verification process, and will therefore also lose out on the employment opportunity all together.
But hey, I guess its not big deal as long as you aren't aboriginal.