Re: Singapore jobs - culture and similarity?

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.=20


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  - 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")).