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megangawlinski

I already got a few messages in which I was contacted with "Dear Mr. ..."
Even though my last name may be confusing, none of them looked at my profile. My profile picture alone should make it clear that I am not a man.

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HS

What about not judging by looks gender this and that rights. I would start with dear whateveryoucallyourself just to be sure. Joking aside mr and mrs could be replaced by developer/engineer and such 😁

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Davide de Paolis

oh... that's is so bad.. have you ever spent a few seconds to point it out to them?

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megangawlinski • Edited

Some of them I actually answered. One answer was that the message was definitely designed to fit my profile, and that there was only a mistake with my name… I don’t know if I should believe that :D

Normally I think that I don’t want to invest more time into it, they lost me by making that mistaken anyway.

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Davide de Paolis

exactly. I also try to not waste more of my time on that. but sometimes the temptation of pointing out their unprofessionality is stronger :-)

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Davidson Sousa • Edited

You can believe if the recruiter is Polish as they have different versions for male and female surnames. For them your surname is "male" while the "female" version is be Gawlinska.

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megangawlinski

I'm aware of that - but you could still prevent it if you take a closer look at the profile. :)

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Davidson Sousa

Definitely. But your case is "local". Imagine a guy named Ashley or Lindsay 😁