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Honestly, I wouldn’t remove it. Leading events, planning, and growing membership are solid leadership and organizational skills. Plus, it shows initiative. If a company sees DEI work as a red flag, is that somewhere you’d want to be? Your volunteer work reflects values and skills they should value too.
Take it off.
But don’t remove the experience, the initiatives you lead, etc. Make things about what you accomplished and why YOU were chosen, not the reason the effort was being done.
You have skills and experience that are of value.
However, “read the room”, any organization you would want to work for has swung to the new POTUS, unless you have a moral objection ( it seems the CEOs don’t) focus on what you can contribute.
Work is about making $$ (with benefits) leading to making more of the same.
If you want to make a difference, take some of that comp and donate it to those orgs that are leading the way.
Keep it. Be proud of who you are. And be proud of what you're doing. I empathize with your concern. There will be a lot of problems in the next months and years. But hiding mention of your leadership qualities seems like a bad idea. If people are going to discriminate against for that, well, they're not going to give you any opportunity anyway.
Not full of fear. Who are you to presume what I feel?
“Show up work….” I assume you’re trying to say show up and work? I can’t show up to a job I don’t have.
“Keep moving forward” I’ve built an e-commerce website for myself to sell seeds from my property, a foraging mobile app that documents foraged plants, tracks processes and product for herbalists and I’ve built a greenhouse to grow my own food, so the next time you want to comment remember how foolish you look when you presume to know what you clearly know nothing about.
No. Do not obey in advance.
It depends on your goals. A lot of people these days are leaving their morals behind, their identity, their culture, just to fit into a group that will definitely take you to high status. But at what cost right? the hispanic community need people to stand up for them, to be their voices, to represent them when others are stepping on them. They will step on you too if you decide to step up. Are you ready to get discriminated against? Can you handle the hate you're going experience? You have to think about yourself first. This DEI discussion is very sensitive and people are on edge.
DEI is a joke that’s why
Don't even think about it. No need to remove that amazing leadership !
Reframe it... it's anti-DEI because DEI stands for exclusion, not inclusion, if it was really about events, planning and growth then fine frame it that way instead but yes, DEI, would be a red flag no matter what people tell you.
Is this something new? My wife and I have both watched every white applicant immediately dismissed from consideration as companies do everything in their power to hire only BIPOC applicants so they can increase their race ratio quotas. Qualifications are meaningless to the hiring process and obviously unqualified people are purposely hired.
It’s also interesting to me that the DEI race ratios do not reflect population ratios. When 30% of the population gets 50% representation in staff, that is an unbalanced application of equity, assuming you think equity is a legitimate application of justice in the first place.
I’ve been out of work for over a year with no response to my job applications despite years of experience, but then I’m just a privileged first in my family to graduate college grandson of a poor white Appalachian coal miner so I guess I’m getting what I deserve for having white skin.
It's really your decision to make, why did you join that resource group in the first place , would you really want to work for a company that is anti DEI ? Think about the impact of your resource group and what it has been able to achieve. After all this of course you have to think about providing for yourself and your household so if you think this could be a potential problem then go for it. Do not change so much that you dont recognize yourself or the things you believe in.
Keep it. If for some hiring manager this is a red flag, then you don't want to work for this company.
Fact: At least in the Biotech industry Fujifilm is not considered a stable employer, having more layoffs that most companies. So, would you really leave it on knowing your chance of needing a job is high and it could make your search harder? Be honest.
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I am a proud Hispanic that voted red this year. For my own personal reasons. I didn't like are last administration, include biden. Sometimes in life you have to hide your beliefs and what you do in your life because now days people judge you for your beliefs and your skin color. It's America. I would keep my personal life to yourself. Only tell them what helps you get your job Never include your personal life.
Sir, your words are very true and realistic, blessings and best wishes for you, sir from Bangladesh, I have done HVAC Diploma with my own qualification, I have long experience in my Saudi Arabia for 5 years, I want a job to get a job. Do it Thanks
It’s a really sad reality that you should even have to be questioning this. All political questions aside, though, from a practical perspective I think your experience in that group demonstrates leadership, interpersonal, and organizational skills and so shouldn’t be removed
As a fellow Latino, I understand the panic of leaving out DEI, you are in the stand still why did you get hired, is it because of merit or DEI standards, either way you know why you got hired and worked your way up the ladder and due to your proven work record you are Chair.
I am currently looking for work and I answer the DEI questionnaire and it's been over a year and nothing, so in this time we don't really know how to move forward. Go with your gut.
If you truly feel that it's part of why you are not getting job offer,s then remove and if you start being offered job then you know what the problem was.
I hate that you had to ask that question, but I get why you did.
There are quite a few software companies that are being even more loud about and ramping up their DEI initiatives because of all the pushback taking place. They want to be seen as a better, more open place to work - and they also want to be a light in what is feeling like darkness.
So, it might limit your options, but it's also going to weed out the places you don't want to work and attract the places you do want to work.
I would keep it, and note accomplishments that shows your leadership. The new employer are looking for folks who can make decisions and lead groups in line with the company direction.
Remove it. Get a job with your merits.
Merit...it's the difference between i got here because or my skin/gender or I got here because of hard work and dedication.
If you truly feel that it's part of why you are not getting job offer,s then remove and if you start being offered job then you know what the problem was.
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From European point of view, DEI is not explicitely named as "DEI" here but we specifically target disabled people, gender equality, etc. Maybe the labels got some people triggered but the activity itself may be benefitial both for society and company - looking for new points of view, different approaches, new potentially good candidates outside the standard pool of workforce, giving people tailored opportunities that result in previously overlooked skilled and loyal employees, that are grateful for opportunity given, that is nothing to be ashamed of. There is always general lack of good employees.
At best, you can use it as a tie-breaker between candidates of equal merit. Tip the scales more than that and your team suffers.
I get why you would ask, given the DEI rollbacks at a handful of high-profile corporations and Trump 2.0's first-week executive-order purge of federal DEI workers. That said, DEI efforts, like sustainability efforts and ESG investing, are increasingly the corporate norm, not just in the US, but worldwide. The current backlash feels cyclical (to me, at least), and I believe it will be short-lived. Over the long term, the smart money is behind DEI, not because investors are particularly progressive (or easily cowed by progressives), but because the global marketplace and workforce are diverse, and it's wise to hire and advance a workforce of brand ambassadors to whom your clientele can relate. The DEI train has left the station, whether or not Donald Trump or Robby Starbuck stamp their feet and try to call it back. But I do agree with those on this thread who suggest you frame your efforts in a way that suggests how you helped the company, its customers, and its bottom line. After all, DEI should be able to make the case that it's benefiting all those stakeholders, not just the traditionally marginalized.
All it will take is one economic pullback and all that "look how hip we are" fluff spending will be the first to get cut.
DEI is critical. It encompasses so much and global companies are very committed to it.