On Dec 27, 2010, at 20:44, Darren Duncan wrote:
> Maybe its a different culture thing with Singapore, but as far as I know in
> North America it is inappropriate to be asking for a photo with an
> application, same as it is inappropriate to ask questions on one's family
> status or religion or politics etc in a job interview.
In the US some of those are illegal actually, rather than just inappropriate.
Some general notes as one of the volunteer moderators of the postings:
Unless we're alerted to something being illegal or particularly inappropriate
we don't and can't filter on things like that when posting jobs to the site
because it's basically impossible for us to know the culture and law all over
the world. While we could reject things that just seem wrong to us[1]; it'd
merely just make the poster slightly adjust the posting; but be unlikely to
adjust their corporate (or national/cultural!) attitude so it seems like a
better service to have the jobs go through as posted.
As examples everyone will understand: We wouldn't want to correct "PERL" to
"Perl". When someone posts something that's clearly a PHP job (but with some
reference to Perl) and we reject it for not being a Perl job they'll often just
move a sentence around so Perl is listed first. Does that really change the
job? No. Is the posting now more correct? Who knows.
- ask
[1] As a sidenote we don't read them in great detail actually; just scan for it
looking like a real job and that it is a Perl job ("we know it when we see
it")).
