Is this wrong?
 

Been filling out a lot of applications/resumes lately, and several places when filling out your profile ask to describe yourself in X amount of words... Backtracking, by looking at my name, its kinda apparent im a white male, thus besides my education and skills nothing separates me from the other 500 white males applying for the same position, and being a recent graduate from a state school im damn near the bottom... All these companies are Equal Opportunity Employers, which if anyone has any common sense knows thats complete ********, the reason why i know this?... ive written some of those equations for those "optional surveys", theyre very similar to the point system colleges use to pick candidates, if youre a latin female who served in the military you might as well just send an email to HR saying 'gimme a yob'... Getting back to my original question, would me putting down "being a minority through my public school years was tough" (which is 100% true) or some similar crap like that make me an *******?.. Im lookin for anything to better my chances at this moment

if you were actually a minority in your school hell no its not wrong, its the truth isn't it ?

I'd say that you're a gay black midget that has to use a wheelchair...instant CEO :rofl:

I have Australian citizenship so I was considering putting "South Pacific Islander" on my college apps :lol:

Honestly, you need to separate yourself from the crowd somehow...

I know we told Jake to put down "African American" on his apps.

You're a minority, you're not overweight...

not funny bro my uncle is a gay black midget that uses a wheelchair..
















...jk haha

Well, it would make you a liar. The professional world is funny in how you run into people 10+ years later you never thought you'd see again. As the saying goes, it's a small world.

How so?, whites are a minority in the ewing public school system, which is what im referring to

No one in the professional world would buy that.

how is it different than being a white guy from philly or trenton?... when considering minority/majority you dont consider the whole population of the united states, you compare it to what youre relative to

As per dictionary.com:
Minority
1. the smaller part or number; a number, part, or amount forming less than half of the whole.
2. a smaller party or group opposed to a majority, as in voting or other action.
3. a group differing, esp. in race, religion, or ethnic background, from the majority of a population: legislation aimed at providing equal rights for minorities.
4. a member of such a group.
5. the state or period of being under the legal age of full responsibility

Referring mainly to the "majority of A population", notice it does not say "THE population", so with you stating that you are a minority in the population of your school, you are 100% right on.
The buzzkill, though, is that (and I may be wrong about this) most applications refer to a minority as someone in a smaller racial group in relation to its country.

Personally, I just leave the race and religion parts blank. I don't want to be seen as "oh, just another white guy" in a stack of papers before reading into my resumé.

i was a minority in my neighborhood all through my young years, but the problem with putting that on a professional application is very misleading. either way, like scott said, youll be surprised how many threads weave their way into each other....its the same with burning bridges....you might have to cross them again later:nod:

I'm gonna sum up what everyone's been saying, really simple...




yes

everyone has their own opinion on this i personally dont think its wrong at all you might as well try it what do you have to lose?

Are you white? Yes? Then you're not a minority, period.

Even if you're correct by saying it, all it takes is the potential employer to take one look and say "this kid's an ass" and it doesn't matter how right you are. Of course there's the flip side, where if you find someone who appreciates what you're saying, then you've probably got an awesome place to work right there.

wow...intelligent convo, good job njfboa
back to topic:

Everyone is making good points and like kasey just said, people can either see it as 'acting out as a repressed white person' or 'i appreciate that this kid has balls'... and as anyone knows me whatsoever knows im not one to put my hand over my mouth on my opinion haha

what about using the term 'white minority'?

I think you're toeing a dangerous line, while I can fully understand where you're coming from in Corporate America you'd be viewed as a whiny *******...just my opinion. Not saying you ARE whiny but you're already bringing up a race issue before even being interviewed/hired. I know that if I was interviewing you it'd look bad(regardless if I agreed with you or not).

You do bring up an interesting argument but the way the world works is...you're white, not a minority. To try to justify something otherwise might look bad.

Say you walk into an interview. Jack Johnson is waiting for his 10 am interview to come in. He's reviewing the paperwork to make sure he gets the name right, the qualifications right and even maybe prepares a few questions just for you based upon your ''tough minority upbringing.'' Then you come walking in and BAM....interview is already over in his head before you shook hands/exchange pleasantries for being misleading (not a quality jobs look for).


Professional corporate america is a very tight knit and diverse crowd. Now, Jack Johnsons works for Company A. John Jackson work for Company B. They intermingle, have a few drinks, share stories of the jackass white kid coming in for an interview passing himself off as a minority on a technicality.

Whats happening here??? an innocent conversation about horrible interviews (happens a lot) and Jack goes back to his company and tells the funny story around the water cooler, a few people hear it and before you know it you've been blackballed before you even got your foot in the door.


interviews are putting your very best foot forward, you dont wanna shoot yourself in the foot before having a chance.


If youve ever been in a situation where you were put in charge of the interviewing process youd see this from a totally different perspective. ive had people come into interviews and totally put me off before saying a word. cocky, smug, misleading, condescending and arrogance are the best ways to not get called back in.

did my homework

i hear you on that, but you gotta agree that race/gender favoring is bull-****, if i was a chief in the state police and was told that i have to hire 100 new cadets, but at least 30 had to be black people, 10 had to be latin and 10 women, i would be ridiculously furious... thats 50 people right there that i must hire... what if i had 1000 applicants, 950 of those were white males, the other being 30 black, 10 latin, and 10 women... now you have to hire 10% of those 1000, you would assume that, easy enough, take the top 10% qualified... but no, you have to take peoples race/gender into consideration so you can fill a 'quota'... what if that top 10% was all white males? Now you screw at least 5% of the top qualifiers because you had to give their job to a less qualified person... now what if all the 950 white males finished 1 thru 950 in class ranking... now you have to hire the 50 least qualified people, i would resign for making a mockery of myself and the credibility of the state police

Yes i believe that the affirmative action policy is b.s. Ive had to deal with these politics while managing a few different tire shops. Its actually racist and offensive to EVERYONE involved. its like saying minorities need an extra helping hand....but on the other hand if you look at the other half of the country, such as the bible belt it also acts as a safeguard toward any future ignorance/bigotism/racism.




The biggest problem i have out of all of this? We have a minority president, if he can get the job without affirmative action then I believe WE as a collective whole of a country should be able to toss aside that crutch and even the playing field for everyone. If I was a minority I would be offended if I got a job over a more qualified person just based on my race.



(skirting close to politics but not really)

ok well i apologize, according to Wikipedia, whites make up 75% of America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra..._and_ethnicity

I'm asking this in a serious manner because I truly don't know...how is what you're talking about applying to EOE? You're talking about Affirmative Action which is now illegal if I remember correctly.

Is EOE now the changed named for Affirmative Action kind of how Climate Change is now what Global Warming used to be?

Nasty, well said. Gotta love fighting racism and discrimination with racism and discrimination...proof that common sense goes out the window when you try to level the playing field...such a lovely ideology.