Bill Gates' Resume Unexpectedly Sparks Discussion Of Discrimination In The Workplace

Bill Gates (Bill Gates) in the Collingwood on the public 48 years ago his resume, the bottom of the comments business mutual admiration is inevitable, while some people are discussing the height and weight of such details, accidentally triggered the "workplace discrimination" thinking.

When Gates released his resume, he said that students nowadays are definitely much better than his own resume back then. The original quote is: "Whether you're a recent grad or a college dropout, I'm sure your resume looks a lot better than mine did 48 years ago."

This is clearly in Versailles, where he started out in college just a few classes above many others. Bill Gates attended Lakeside School, a prestigious private school in the U.S., for high school, and in 1971, as a high school student, he wrote a class schedule program for the school. In 1973, when he sent out his resume, Gates was a freshman at Harvard University, which listed a current salary of $12,000, with expectations of salary and location open for negotiation.

Global sadness and joy are not connected, and it is difficult for the crowd to feel the prices in the United States 48 years ago, so whether twelve thousand dollars is an annual salary or a monthly salary or money by project has sparked a bit of a discussion, with no clear conclusion in sight. An Indian student's response, in 2022, $12,000 in India is also enough to find three undergraduate computer science graduates.

And the resume also lists details like height and weight, which sparked a different discussion.
They look for young bodies
One HR commented that resumes list information like height, weight, and dependents. In the past, people were still required to provide so much personal information to employers. Now, she would advise people to take the year of high school graduation off the resume because the employer would be able to easily calculate the person's age.

In some countries, such as the United States, an important piece of the fight against age-based sexism in employment is that no relevant information should appear on a resume. Lili Zhu, founder of Career Insider UK, told Workplace Anthropology Lab that according to recruitment-related laws and company regulations in some countries in Europe and the United States, the vast majority of laws and situations do not require the writing of height, weight, gender, and other information unrelated to ability.
"On a daily basis, people don't discuss age or know how old you are. I've been occasionally asked by doctors over the past few years and get stuck, literally forgetting how many I'm stuck." Lili believes that although HR can guess according to the approximate time of graduation, or even go to Collage and search to see personal information such as photos, the law has to regulate "whether there is systematic discrimination".

The law and the system play a guiding role. Whether the hiring process is able to abandon personal bias is also an important criterion for examining the professionalism of the interviewer and the attractiveness and values of a company gravity/p>

But bosses think from a utilitarian point of view, do not really feel that older not as good as young people?Lili gives an interesting perspective to think about: this side instead of the young people as a liability, it is necessary to cultivate for several years to get back to the capital. Europe and the United States originally do not allow overtime, the law does not allow long hours of work, young people's physical strength can not be seen. And the stage of economic development is also different, this side of the work of the general requirements of the overall quality of high, need to brain intelligence, not the young people can spell out the physical strength.

This is a young people will also "think very scared" interpretation. Companies love to use young people, on the one hand, this position does not value the accumulation of experience, is a "physical intensity" position, without how to train to be competent; on the other hand, is not also shows that age discrimination employers often do not want to long-term training of employees, after a few years, the boss will turn around and go to cut another batch of leeks?

Youth wasted in the black words
"Young people have brain power, creativity and vigor, how can they just have physical strength?!!!" Lucy, a 95-year-old headhunter who was busy helping a major factory find people, used multiple emoticons with exclamation points to express her disagreement when discussing the matter on WeChat.

Accusing employers of recruiting young people for nothing more than their bodies, many large factory HRs would probably not agree with this view. Instead, HRs would instead give many examples of young people taking high pay and being promoted quickly here. "What is this if not training and exercising?"

This is indeed the opportunity of many young companies, do not look at seniority to see the ability, there are not so many old man every day to teach you "human feelings", young people can get good growth. But things have two sides, when you further ask them the average length of time employees in the enterprise and personnel "turnover rate", many people do not speak.

Also in the comments on Gates' post, some people praised the resume for its authenticity and the fact that the vocabulary was accurate and not pompous, unlike today's resumes, which have a lot of buzzwords. Nowadays, many applicants who have written a few lines of code, resume frequently appear "layout planning", "architectural design" and other big words, so people are disgusted. The real masters are more humble and actually talk about what they can do.

The advantage of being young is that you can start from a blank sheet of paper to build a good foundation, or make innovations that are different from those of your predecessors.
However, if the corporate culture of "believing in young people" deteriorates into a culture that advocates "quick success and quick profit", and the young people are stuck in the black words and empty words, busy writing plans and doing review as well as grabbing territories every day, they neither make efforts to build up the basic skills nor focus on the output of actual innovative results, but rather focus on the actual innovative results. Instead of working hard to build up their basic skills and focusing on the production of actual innovative results, they "repackage the results of the previous generation in a different language". Waiting for the layoff notice to hand, many people realize that two or three years of youth, in fact, in the busy wasted.

By and by, only new people laugh, who see the old people cry. In this sense, young people and middle-aged people are victims of age discrimination in the workplace.