Marriage status

thursday

Well well, never tought my humble opinion would cause such a controversy here!

I always put offsprings in, even their age; never had any problems with it. I consider parenthood my greatest achievement so far.
Never had any problem with the truth, besides, if you can handle children, you most likely can handle anything!

For those of you who would rather sweep them under the carpet I can only say good luck....
I always think that is rather cool add-on to my personality, but it seams to be just me here....shame:cool:

Oldernotwiser

thursday wrote: »

Never had any problem with the truth,

But you were the one who suggested that he lie about being married!

bristol_pilot

Marital status and number of offspring should be left off a CV, it is irrelevant to the modern workplace.

Decades ago - i.e. about 40-50 years ago - yes, a newly-married man was just what Companies were looking for and a newly-married woman was just what Companies were looking to avoid. However, the world has moved on thank goodness. Also gone are the days when single men got nowhere because they didn't have nice little wifey back home to act as hostess when the boss came round for dinner.

Simply BEING a parent is not an achievement by the way! Bringing them up properly may be, but simply being a parent is very easy and indeed often accidental! How embarrassing to put your children on your CV as 'achievements'. All it shows is that you can copulate.

juliescot

thursday wrote: »

Well well, never tought my humble opinion would cause such a controversy here!

I always put offsprings in, even their age; never had any problems with it. I consider parenthood my greatest achievement so far.
Never had any problem with the truth, besides, if you can handle children, you most likely can handle anything!

For those of you who would rather sweep them under the carpet I can only say good luck....
I always think that is rather cool add-on to my personality, but it seams to be just me here....shame:cool:

It does indeed.

Do you, for info, put your own age on a CV?

thursday

bristol_pilot wrote: »

Marital status and number of offspring should be left off a CV, it is irrelevant to the modern workplace.

It is not irrelevant, and it never will be.

Simply BEING a parent is not an achievement by the way! Bringing them up properly may be, but simply being a parent is very easy and indeed often accidental! How embarrassing to put your children on your CV as 'achievements'. All it shows is that you can copulate.

This is just far too primitive to comment on, sorry, not impressed.

thursday

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

But you were the one who suggested that he lie about being married!

aren't you a perfectionist?
Yes, technically speaking you are right, but someone in that situation is rather more "married" then "single"

thursday

juliescot wrote: »

It does indeed.

Do you, for info, put your own age on a CV?

For your info, I do put my date of birth, I hope this does not offend your sensibilities?

juliescot

thursday wrote: »

aren't you a perfectionist?
Yes, technically speaking you are right, but someone in that situation is rather more "married" then "single"

What????

So they are not married but more married than not? How does that work then?

juliescot

thursday wrote: »

For your info, I do put my date of birth, I hope this does not offend your sensibilities?

Why would it offend my sensibilities?

Why do you put your dob on as it has no relevance to your employment prospects as it is illegal to discriminate on grounds of age. (amongst other things)

[Deleted User]

thursday wrote: »

aren't you a perfectionist?
Yes, technically speaking you are right, but someone in that situation is rather more "married" then "single"

This could be a thread on its own.. but if you haven't got a piece of paper stating your are married in the eyes of the law it is a lie to put it on a CV. In fact, it could be used by an employeer to sack you.

I mean, if you can't tell the truth on that, could your '4 years experience of C++' be a lie also?