[UPHPU] brasto seeks new LAMP OSS opportunities

[Mike Mackrory]

I like your idea of taking specific experiences and applying them to the job.  It would probably make sense to do this with any experiences you've had.

On the last comment though...  Hopefully once they figure out where you stand religeously or even politically, they would already have gotten to know you and hopefully it wouldn't make much difference.  I'd just hate to miss out on a good opportunity, just because someone has a prejudiced view against something that I might be associated with.

Mike Mackrory wrote:
> I think including religeous references might show character, but it could 
also have the opposite effect as well...  Sure discrimination is illegal, but 
that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
>
> A mission or being an eagle scout would be likely be seen different by 
someone who themselves did both, and someone who has no real clue of either.
>
>   
Well, if you write 'mission' and assume they know what that means, I 
wouldn't say that's particularly helpful.  People who have been on 
missions, for example, probably know that they can be very different 
experiences depending on where you went, when you went, and who you 
worked with.  And people who haven't gone a mission might not really 
know what good they could get out of you for it anyway.

But you could list your accomplishments in service projects, missions, 
and other volunteer work if that experience would apply to the career.  
Think of the problems you solved and the challenges you overcame, and 
list those that would make you more valuable in your field.

As for discrimination, if someone's got a beef with RMs, they'd probably 
figure it out sooner or later anyway. ;-)

-V

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