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l am currently a rising junior in
college interning this summer at
Amazon as a Business Analyst. I
would really like to break into
product management and believe in
my 5 weeks so far I have shown skills
to back that up. Would it be
acceptable to ask my manager to
recommend me for a product
management internship next
summer? My midpoint meeting with
my manager (and his manager) is
next Friday
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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 $$ (with benefits) leading to making more of the same.
If you want to make a difference, take some of that comp and donate it to those orgs that are leading the way.
Keep it. Be proud of who you are. And be proud of what you're doing. I empathize with your concern. There will be a lot of problems in the next months and years. But hiding mention of your leadership qualities seems like a bad idea. If people are going to discriminate against for that, well, they're not going to give you any opportunity anyway.
Not full of fear. Who are you to presume what I feel?
“Show up work….” I assume you’re trying to say show up and work? I can’t show up to a job I don’t have.
“Keep moving forward” I’ve built an e-commerce website for myself to sell seeds from my property, a foraging mobile app that documents foraged plants, tracks processes and product for herbalists and I’ve built a greenhouse to grow my own food, so the next time you want to comment remember how foolish you look when you presume to know what you clearly know nothing about.
The "anti-DEI" movement is just today's grift-fad. Don't pay it any mind.
DEI is the grift-fad.
I think it is good idea to keep it on your resume. It not only shows your willingness to lead groups, but anyone that connects dots from this kind of effort to DEI is probably best avoided anyway.
Don't comply in advance
I'd remove it. It basically says we didn't hire based on the best resources to support our company instead it says well we hire for race sex sexual preference and any other discrminatory reason. DEI is dead thank god. A terrible discriminatory practice.
Yes. The world according to ... you. Do you also recommend we salute back when thrown a Roman salute by the company president as well? I mean, shouldn't we all want to stop being called 'ReXXXds", and classed as unable to learn, by those draining the US Treasury of more $$$ every year? After all, the richest of these employers would die for a belief in the utter necessity of replacing American engineers with lesser paid, easily bossed, easily expendable foreign workers... If you care about merit vs. discrimination (call it 'favoritism'), perhaps you should examine the credentials of the US cabinet nominees. 100% merit, am I right? Preach on though... Calmer heads will prevail
I'd definitely keep it, however if you're worried about it you could change the verbiage on your resume. What you've done while in the group has tons of skills tied to it and has been incredible for your company. You should be proud of it!
I feel the same. DEI dates your experience as well. Human resources is already rebranding their community inclusive terminology as we speak.
Then point of getting rid of DEI wasn't to be racist, it was to get rid of quotas based on race or other factors that have nothing to do with the job. If you want to have a community based on race or religion outside of work you can, it just won't be mandatory for everyone else. Your skills should be enough for you applications and I agree with a lot of people here that does show certain skills for leadership.
ITS 1: I assume nothing. Your race, ethnicity or religion is of no point to the conversation. It is your state of mind. And I don't need to assume minority candidates are being held back for lack of skill, education or experience; it's simply the fact. In absence of that, the boardrooms and political backrooms would look and sound quite different. Jim Crow never died - it just got a new face.
No. It shows you can lead groups.
What is your education in? Use your professional/education title. If you are in the U.S. you do know that the Trump regime does not include DEI unless you can explain it as White Christian Nationalism and show that you are a card carry individual for some associated group. G.E.C.
I would encourage you to highlight the leadership aspect of the position. If you are doing the work you should get the credit for it. I have lots of volunteer positions on my resume that I have to not only show my commitment and personal backing of those organizations but also highlight my leadership, planning and execution ability in those programs activities.
If they choose not to hire you because of the listing of that on your resume you probably don't want to work there anyways.
Tough, and I get what you're saying by that. This positive, impactful thing about being a resource group leader, it is unfortunate it could be construed that way, okay. Let me leave you with these few things to consider.
1. Context Matters Customize your resume and LinkedIn profile depending on the job and culture that you're seeking to be hired into. Maybe certain organizations will have a great attachment to DEI while others are not so. Conduct research regarding the employers' values and culture, thereby ascertaining the organizations' take on DEI.
2. Highlight Transferable Skills: You can say you learned skills such as planning events, projects, team, and community activities without stating that it was in the context of DEI. You can represent your experiences by showing that you are versatile with capabilities.
3. Seek Feedback: If you have any sort of trusted colleagues, mentors, or career advisors, ask them for their feedback. They will perhaps give you great inputs as to how best you can present those experiences.
4. Be Yourself: Your personal values and professional aspirations should find equilibrium. If that DEI work is so foundational to who you are, what you believe, and who you're trying to become, then do not even bother applying if it's abundantly clear that this company doesn't get that.
It's a personal call, but the delicate line between putting on a show for your achievements and fitting into the values of potential employers is key. What do you think about these points?
No absolutely not. I think the words DEI have become politicized but leading a Hispanic resource group is a fantastic achievement you should be proud of.
This whole anti-DEI thing will eventually blow up in their faces. Be proud of who you are and what you stand for. If an employer doesn’t value that, they are not worth working for.
Stop calling it DEI. Call it what it is. Latino support group. People against DEI just want merit based hiring. There is nothing bad about supporting and encouraging minority groups. Even making sure discrimination is not happening in hiring is a lofty and well supported thing. Just don’t call it DEI.
My opinion is it shows that you've been trained to look at skin color, gender, etc...Not the things that make for a qualified candidate. Me personally, I would remove it, but that's just my opinion.
Thx
Exactly Electrician 1, I have been trained to look at skin color, gender, religion etc., and I have been trying to undo that indoctorination everyday of my adult life. Growing up in one of the most segregated cities outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, I had to learn early where not to go and who to stay away from to survive. When I reached the age to drive, I tried to expand my horizons and wandered, quite by accident, into a skinhead picnic. I and my two friends were surrounded and nearly attacked, save for a forest preserve police officer wandering by as well, leading us out and quite literally, saving our lives. But I endure. I came to learn, through work, school and other interactions that not every bal, tattooed white man is a racist, not every blonde woman is a bimbo and not every Muslim is a terrorist, not by a lot.
Immigrants get the stigma associated with their being different as being dangerous; Italian, Polish, Irish immigrants all were considered for a time unhireable by the group that was in control at that time. Women can drive trucks and pull wire. Men can be nurses and babysitters. Muslims can teach English and the world still turns. Prejudice, bigotry and racism all stem from unfamiliarity, but endure absent education and awareness.
I have decided to inform my prejudice with knowledge, ban bigotry from my thought and never allow myself to be in a position to be racist.
Some need to be shaken out of their predetermined beliefs to see the truth; we are all capable of greatness, allowed the opportunity to excel. Let's all progress and not retreat into ignorance.
My advice is to search your heart.
Do you believe employers should hire the best *person* for the job and not discriminate against (or therefore prefer) anyone based on characteristics which are not relevant to the job ?
Then ask yourself... in reality does DEI actually achieve that or does it do the exact opposite of what it claims.
Absolutely and with a resounding NO!!!! Do not allow the hate and racism that has entered the White House and Congress to make you ashamed of who you are. Do NOT bend the knee. SI SE PUEDE!!!!
You should not fear any repercussions right now for keeping your DEI leadership skills. In a year or 2 I see all of that changing. We are in for some radical changes that could impact your safety in the very near future. Complacency in our country will be our downfall and there will be a number of atrocities that will not be reported by the mainstream media. Be careful.
I would leave it on, but re-focus on what you did for the company, such as "assisted with multi-lingual recruiting," or "Facilitated employee engagement events". These are valuable to any company. Avoid any topical language that implies DEI or activism like "Elevated disadvantaged groups". These are currently red flags to employers who are interested in contributors not high maintenance employees. Finally, ignore the idiots who say "leave it on because you don't want to work for a company where that could be a detriment". These people are just virtue signaling, in reality they probably have already removed it from their resumes because they need to feed their family as well.
"...all on a volunteer basis..."
If the group is just there to make people feel more comfortable, and the company doesn't have to pay you for it, I don't see any harm leaving that on your account. I personally don't understand self-imposed social segregation based on race, but I also understand I'm not the target audience.
If your group is responsible for keeping a racial quota via "the company needs a percentage of race X employed"....ya I probably wouldn't mention that on my account. Of course, if I knew it would advantage me while applying at a potential employer who encouraged that culture inside the workplace, I would absolutely leave it up. This job market is rough, and if an employer has racial preferences, absolutely play to their ideology.
Based on what you presented however, it looks clearly to be the former. IMO, I don't see any harm.
"the company needs a percentage of race X employed." There. right there. that is literally the entire premise of DEI and why it's racist and needs to be thrown in the trash.
Involving politics rarely helps.
it's beyond stupid, it has failed dismally so, you keep pushing it I'm sure it'll work out wonders for you.