Asking for your sexual orientation on job applications.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would you even consider working for an organization which classified applicants and employees that way? It tells you all you need to know about their politics and biases.

That is exactly why they do it. It weeds out folks like you allowing them to focus on hiring the best team players.

The question itself is illegal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you even consider working for an organization which classified applicants and employees that way? It tells you all you need to know about their politics and biases.

That is exactly why they do it. It weeds out folks like you allowing them to focus on hiring the best team players.

Those people who want those questions are the opposite of the best team players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is extremely common and you can opt. Almost all modern companies will ask you to identify your gender, race, if you’re a veteran, if you have disabilities, and your sexual orientation. It’s primarily for tracking if candidates are being discriminated against.

The question is illegal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've been applying for jobs since we are all uncertain right now. Granted it's been a long time since doing this I'm shocked by some of these questions on the applications. So now I think I've seen it all. First gender, what you identify as now a huge list instead of "male" or "female" or "trans." I was asked for my sexual orientation: heterosexual, homosexual, asexual, pansexual, you get it, basically WHO do you like to have sex with. This was NOT optional. It was a drop down you could not get passed unless you answered. Why would any company need to know what your sexual preference was and furthermore why would it matter? Is this typical? Have you seen this before? I'm taking a aback because I don't know why they would need this information and I was always taught to keep your professional work separate from your private life. This steps over the line to me. It feels very inappropriate. I did not apply to the job. Anyone in HR can shed some light?

Seen a doctor lately? Many of the same questions.

I’ve also encountered these questions at several doctors offices. Surprisingly, having encountered it at doctors’s offices that I’ve gone to for decades.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Identify the organization or we won't believe you. This sounds entirely made up, by you.

Atlassian

This isn’t a US entity, right?

[Anonymous]

I have seen this on several online job applications but there is always an option “opt out” or “refuse to identify” there is always an option out. That’s what I pick. The refuse to identify option.

[Anonymous]

Why would such a question be on a job application?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been applying for jobs for over a year and have never seen anything beyond gender and that was F/M/prefer not to answer.

What companies specifically?

OP, you should make sure you’re applying to legit companies and not being scammed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is extremely common and you can opt. Almost all modern companies will ask you to identify your gender, race, if you’re a veteran, if you have disabilities, and your sexual orientation. It’s primarily for tracking if candidates are being discriminated against.

The question is illegal.

It is always a voluntary request which you can choose not to answer. That isn't illegal.

[Anonymous]

I am not a lawyer, but I believe that most of these "illegal" interview questions are totally legal to ask. The issue is when one discriminates against candidates based upon certain criteria.

That doesn't change the fact that my skin color and whom I prefer to have sex with aren't really any of their business, outside of a few specfic cases.

[Anonymous]

can you apply twice under different genders and see if one gets through?

[Anonymous]

Do they also provide definitions for all of those?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is extremely common and you can opt. Almost all modern companies will ask you to identify your gender, race, if you’re a veteran, if you have disabilities, and your sexual orientation. It’s primarily for tracking if candidates are being discriminated against.

The question is illegal.

It is always a voluntary request which you can choose not to answer. That isn't illegal.

Yes. It is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not a lawyer, but I believe that most of these "illegal" interview questions are totally legal to ask. The issue is when one discriminates against candidates based upon certain criteria.

That doesn't change the fact that my skin color and whom I prefer to have sex with aren't really any of their business, outside of a few specfic cases.

If they ask the question, then choose the straight white man over the black gender fluid trans man, both with similar qualifications but the white man had a better interview, then they can get sued for discriminating against the black gender fluid trans man because they asked the question.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been applying for jobs for over a year and have never seen anything beyond gender and that was F/M/prefer not to answer.

What companies specifically?

I don't belive that for a second! You've been applying for over a year and none had more than M or F? lol lol Ok! The gender question with lots of answers is nearly on every application the sexual preference/orientation question less often but still consistently out there.

Are you 16 and applying for your first job? Or just generally immature? Did it occur to you that people might work in industries that do not really care?

I'm not the PP, but I have not seen anything beyond M/F/prefer not to answer for any job I applied to. I work in Aerospace & Defense.