On 11 Dec 2012, at 11:38, Andy Robinson <a...@reportlab.com> wrote: > On 11 December 2012 10:51, Andy Robinson <a...@reportlab.com> wrote: >> We are looking for people who are smart, get >> things done and are good team players. > > > For all employers out there.... my HR guru goes to all the seminars > on employment law, and is very current on what we can and cannot do. > She has told me that our latest round of ads are wrong because > explicitly asking for SMART people is discriminatory against THICK > people. You can ask about skills, but not about innate > characteristics like age or sex (which we all know), and apparently, > now, brains. > > Anyone else heard this kind of total bollocks lately? ;-)
Just say that you meant SMARTLY-DRESSED people :-) PS Actually, bad idea. You've just dissuaded 95% of the developer population from applying for your job. _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
