27 September 2014
Adding "Mr"
From I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to my resume and landed a job by Kim O’Grady:
"My first name is Kim. Technically, it’s gender neutral, but my experience showed that most people’s default setting in the absence of any other clues is to assume Kim is a woman’s name. And nothing else on my CV identified me as male. At first I thought I was being a little paranoid, but engineering, sales and management were all male-dominated industries. So I pictured all the managers I had over the years and, forming an amalgam of them in my mind, I read through the document as I imagined they would have. It was like being hit on the head with a big sheet of unbreakable glass ceiling."
"My first name is Kim. Technically, it’s gender neutral, but my experience showed that most people’s default setting in the absence of any other clues is to assume Kim is a woman’s name. And nothing else on my CV identified me as male. At first I thought I was being a little paranoid, but engineering, sales and management were all male-dominated industries. So I pictured all the managers I had over the years and, forming an amalgam of them in my mind, I read through the document as I imagined they would have. It was like being hit on the head with a big sheet of unbreakable glass ceiling."
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# posted by mamurd @ 8:55 PM 
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Call me skeptical. His tale is a little too pat. Unless I missed it, he didn't say that the companies that ignored his application granted interviews after he added the Mr.
While certainly anecdotal, I think four months of no bites at all, followed by immediate job offers from several companies, bears serious consideration.
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