[EmergingEthnoNetwork] Re: Oceans2012 job

Vincent,
Thank you for your message, it certainly caught my attention.

I don't write to argue or present a justification for sending the job announcement, but I will surely state that most of the announcements are forwarded without thoroughly looking at the applications.

If it sounds decent and comes from a relatively known institution, then we just forward. Checking every application would be too time consuming.

While it is strange and even an invasion to intimacy to ask this sorts of questions on a job application, I don't see direct discriminatory practices, but I do see an alarming intromission n on the part of the employer.

I guess it is up to the people interested in specific jobs to check out the applications, and if they are kind enough, just like you did, they will let the INEE know about the difficulties and/or inconsistencies found throughout the applications.

Thank you, I applaud your letter and encourage everybody to warn us when similar situations arise.

Nemer.

--- In EmergingEthnoNetwork@yahoogroups.ca, Verroust Vincent <verroust_vincent@...> wrote:
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> Hi everybody,
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> Thank you "EmergingEthnoNetwork" for spreading interesting announcements.
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> Anyway, after reading the application form for "Ocean2012 job", I must say that I found it quite shocking : even if the answers are optional, I can't see what's the point of asking appliants about their sexual orientation, religion and "ethnic origin" - wich sounds not scientific at all and quite ethically doubtful, to say the least.
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> If people really matters for these economists, I think they should consider people regardless to the sexual orientation, belief, disability, color of the skin and "origins".
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> Sorry if you find this message useless, but I just can't keep silent about this kind of obnoxious discrimination. I hope you'll understand, or agree !
> Yours sincerely,
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> Vincent from France
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> To: EmergingEthnoNetwork@yahoogroups.ca
> From: giusajeva@...
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:10:58 +0100
> Subject: [EmergingEthnoNetwork] Oceans2012 job
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> The New Economics Foundation - a coalition of European NGOs set up
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> http://www.neweconomics.org/about/vacancies/ocean2012-coordinator-part-time
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