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Overseas being not America?

America being the continent or the US?

Being from America the nation, obviously. I'm sure you're just being pedantic, but that is how it's used. I'm not sure why you feel a need to make a point about this.

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How often are you hiring for that to matter to the average HR user? If you have time to research hr usernames how many resumes are you really getting through in a week?

Just hired 6 people last week. I interview for the company on a weekly basis

Would you care to mention the name of the company? I, and probably an insignificant handful of other unsuitable candidates, would likely benefit from never applying to work there. And I wouldn't want to waste your time, of course. Cyberstalking and doxxing sounds like a lot of work, especially if it's a rejection-only signal.

Interviewing and hiring is very important work, and your company is depending on you for its future. Six people in one week is huge. The people you hire are lucky to work at a place that has so few problems finding talent.

I wonder, though... Do you think that the nature of your work role has created a bias towards the recruiters and interviewers over the interests of the candidates? Or that it might be an abuse of your hiring authority to threaten a pseudoanonymous person on the internet with a permanent, pre-emptive no-hire status, over comments that are not obviously offensive, whose content is only objectionable due to disagreeing with something you said? As someone who hires, do you feel this is appropriate?

Re: Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers

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America being the continent or the US?

Being from America the nation, obviously. I'm sure you're just being pedantic, but that is how it's used. I'm not sure why you feel a need to make a point about this.

Not trying to be pedantic, I’m still somewhat confused when I read “america” when referring to the United States of America. Reason being, everywhere outside of the US, we learn that America is the continent. People who are much less into reading forums in English, or with a high percentage of US readers, can get even more confused, specially when the context is as vague as in this specific response.

Re: Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers

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I made mine as an SPA with Vuejs and some CSS libraries, then converted it to PDF with the print option. It felt appropriate. Material.io style resume, bam! I used it for the first time last week, and I am on to the second round of interviews. [ When all else fails, use your dev skills ]

Thanks for mentioning this. I was doing the exact same thing, also with Vue, but never finished it. Your comment inspired me to pick it up again.

The only major problem I had was the pdf conversion cutting off the styled container. I fixed it by adding an excessive top margin. So just be aware and check the formatting before you ship. :D

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Germany may be a country where this is common, but not the only one by a long way. And no, a German name does not tell the potential employer that your mother was a foreigner? https://us.experteer.com/magazine/should-you-put-a-photo-on-...

it doesn't, but in germany that's a small minority of cases. and even germans who would want to preferably hire other germans would not worry about that case as long as one parent is german. you have to keep in mind that germany has a strong fear of history repeating itself and has strong laws to prevent that. so any hint of xenophobia in the hiring process could be a PR or legal nightmare for a company. if photos on…

Germany does outlaw requesting photos on a job application, so they clearly see some kind of problem with it. But attitudes today are not the ones to look at when trying to figure out why it became a common practice in the past.

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> A profile picture facilitates hiring discrimination on the basis of age, sex, race, beauty, and possibly other factors as well. I agree with you. That's why I said I don't see why anyone other than an actor should put their photo on a resume, because it makes it easier for the reviewer to discriminate based on illegitimate reasons. Perhaps there's a misunderstanding? This discussion thread has been about why anyone…

Positive discrimination. If you're a young, white male you can include a headshot and get a better-than-average crack at the job.

How much do you think this increases the candidate's odds?

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Being from America the nation, obviously. I'm sure you're just being pedantic, but that is how it's used. I'm not sure why you feel a need to make a point about this.

Not trying to be pedantic, I’m still somewhat confused when I read “america” when referring to the United States of America. Reason being, everywhere outside of the US, we learn that America is the continent. People who are much less into reading forums in English, or with a high percentage of US readers, can get even more confused, specially when the context is as vague as in this specific response.

Except no one refers to "America, the continent". It's always North America, South America, The Americas, or possibly Central America (though that's not really a continent). Typically America is the nation. This is doubly true because there is really no other good term for a citizen; "United States Citizen" is verbose and somewhat clinical, and there is no such word as "United Statesian". That's part of what happens when you choose a name for a nation with more than one word.

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Germany may be a country where this is common, but not the only one by a long way. And no, a German name does not tell the potential employer that your mother was a foreigner? https://us.experteer.com/magazine/should-you-put-a-photo-on-...

it doesn't, but in germany that's a small minority of cases. and even germans who would want to preferably hire other germans would not worry about that case as long as one parent is german. you have to keep in mind that germany has a strong fear of history repeating itself and has strong laws to prevent that. so any hint of xenophobia in the hiring process could be a PR or legal nightmare for a company. if photos on…

"If X was a problem it would already be outlawed" is so riddled with fallacies...
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