[_] Age Discrimination Act
Tom Gidden
tom at gidden.net
Fri Sep 29 21:08:50 BST 2006
On 29 Sep 2006, at 20:53, Tim Beadle wrote:
>
> "If you are trying to decide between a few people to fill your
> position, always hire the better writer. I don't care if that person
> is a designer, programmer, marketer, salesperson, whatever. Assuming
> your candidates are fairly equally skilled and qualified overall,
> always hire the better writer. This is especially true with designers
> since copywriting is interface design."
> http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/hiring_tip.php
Yeah.. that's my point. Nice to hear I'm not the only one :)
I've heard it's now illegal (or at least, "wrong") to discriminate by
that, unless writing and communication skills are considered a (or
possibly, the) primary point of the job, as with authors,
speechwriters, etc. It being unfair to people who have poor spelling
and/or language skills. Something my sister was going on about which
I can't remember the details of.
Tom
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Tom Gidden
http://gidden.net/tom/
>
> "If you are trying to decide between a few people to fill your
> position, always hire the better writer. I don't care if that person
> is a designer, programmer, marketer, salesperson, whatever. Assuming
> your candidates are fairly equally skilled and qualified overall,
> always hire the better writer. This is especially true with designers
> since copywriting is interface design."
> http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/hiring_tip.php
Yeah.. that's my point. Nice to hear I'm not the only one :)
I've heard it's now illegal (or at least, "wrong") to discriminate by
that, unless writing and communication skills are considered a (or
possibly, the) primary point of the job, as with authors,
speechwriters, etc. It being unfair to people who have poor spelling
and/or language skills. Something my sister was going on about which
I can't remember the details of.
Tom
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Tom Gidden
http://gidden.net/tom/