[rant]Let me tell you that after 7 years in Executive Recruitment, I not only learnt to speak in gender neutral terms, but also to refrain from any allusion to political belief, sexual persuasion, personal phiosophies (New Age healing etc) race, religion and physical appearance.
Whilst I pull up short of saying I used the laughable level of 'politically correct' language we often hear about, I had to be darn careful I avoided ALL sensitive areas. After all the main aim was to establish whether a candidate could do the job, how they would learn, what they'd bring to the client's company and how they'd interact with people. Nothing else really mattered. Fortunately the great majority of my clients felt the same way.
To be frank all this verbal tippy toeing about didn't bother me in the slightest - it forced me to focus only on the the person's candidacy for the role. In broader terms, isn't that how life should be?
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