atw: Re: CV and interview advice

Peter Martin wrote:
.. and speaking of which, I think never a truer word was spoken than when I recently had a knock-back on the grounds that it was felt "that the cultural fit was not 
quite right."   (Well actually, I think my cultural fit with some of the 
developers was ok.... I'd worked
ok with them at another workplace for about 4-5 years and they remain personal 
friends.)
I only just refrained from replying to the HR person who conveyed this news (but hadn't laid eyes on me) to ask if that was because I was black ? It wouldn't have been because of the long white robe, beard and hat, would it ? Seemed a pretty dangerous sort of statement to make for HR... 

As you can imagine, in the US this would get the company
sued faster than you can blink. Don't know what the rules
are here but that seems really inappropriate for an HR person
to say.

-- Janice

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