Chile Forum

by **patagoniax** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 8:04 pm

gloriosopicante wrote:CURRICULUM BITAE

ROFL !!

That was the funniest thing I have seen in days....

by **brian.usa** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:24 pm

You all are hilarious!

hahaha

I bring mostley a technical trade which has nothing to do with modeling or acting or show business! Photo makes no sense for me so maybe it won't be going in wether or not some consider it normal in Chilean standards. Very interesting to see that it's illegal too!

Thanks!!

by **Seabee** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:26 pm

El Chupacabra wrote:I chuckled at this thread. For what it's worth to anyone who is new or looking to come to Chile. A law in Chile is more like a guild line, or what you can call a flexible idea. Picture on a CV illegal? - sure, but no ones going to jail over it, and no one is monitoring the practice either. That’s just Chile.

Agree with you Chupacabra, and yes Brian from USA, sure is illegal to ask for your mug shot in a resume, or to ask your age, or marital status.

Chileans have their ways to weed out "indeseables" from their workforce. Sure, if you are too old, they would like to know it, otherwise how will they compare you with other candidates. Somehow, they need to know about your family; do you have kids? are you married?, they need to know if the company that you are applying to have to shell out extra monies on family benefits; sure they want to know how you look, are you 'indiecito" or "un poquito negrito"? Do you look "cuma"?, You may not look too cool for their "empresa", does your name ends on Perez? Gomez? or Gonzalez? You might not be able to get the higher position that you applying to, but maybe a lower position more adequate to your last name. Chile by far is not a first world country on the employment front. The perfect example of this is on the mocking resume that Gloriosepicante put in this forum. Yes, is a joke, however, there is plenty of what Chilean think is correct or incorrect in this resume. This "resume" portraits someone who is poor and with no education, dark skin, "cuma" look like, to whom you can laugh at. Fortunately, Chileans are not racists with Anglo or European origins. However, yes, they are racists among themselves.

I always said that any real first world country Human resources official would have a field trip with the Chilean recruitment system, and their hiring practices

by **john** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:07 am

How times have changed for the better in Northern Ireland. When I was growing up there in the 50's my family lived in what was euphemistically called a mixed neighbourhood i.e, Protestant and Catholic families lived on the same street.

Also, at that time, a common practise when placing an add in a newspaper was to stipulate that "Catholics need not apply" and in some cases "Protestants need not apply". If the applicant's surname was deemed suspect (not of the desired religious background) he or she was asked what grammar or high school they attended as almost all schools at that time were segregated by religion ... needlesstosay, this was a "bullet proof" ploy. :roll: