6 ms·
You get a lot of weird stuff from overseas resumes: photos, religion, gender, marital status, father's name, etc...
by mfoy_ 7y ago
You get a lot of weird stuff from overseas resumes: photos, religion, gender, marital status, father's name, etc...
- treve 7y agoOverseas being not America?
- mfoy_ 7y agoWell, I'm not American...
- _vn5r 7y agoAmerica being the continent or the US?
- big_chungus 7y agoBeing 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.
- _vn5r 7y agoNot 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.
- big_chungus 7y agoExcept 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.
- hkai 7y agoAsking for father's name is pretty much India's equivalent of Americans asking "what's your current salary", you use it to judge the person's situation.
- fludlight 7y agoHow does that work?
- truncate 7y agoI don't see how. Last name is same usually for both father/son, and you can't figure anything out from first name. It's almost useless information I think, except maybe differentiate between two people with same name, which is useful only for government applications I think.
- the_gastropod 7y agoIn some parts of India, first names can be very lengthy, and contain lots of information, like: where you're from, your father's name, your grandfather's name, etc.
- truncate 7y agoWow, I'm an Indian, and I didn't know that. But yeah, I still dunno what can be potential use of that information in a resume. Sometimes, I think it's just because of old traditions where people introduce someone as "X son of Y from Z".