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Executive Recruiting Survey Comments Not For the Meek

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Another survey forthcoming results---I am worried about a sort of self-selection bias: most of those that wrote comments seem under pressure in their tone, and strongly opinionated.  Those that actually emailed a response  (other than opt-out'ers) seemed very oppressed, e.g., responses say something like "I don't know if I can respond to the survey" or "this needs to go to our Diversity person", or "I'm not female so I dont think you want me to participate" or "We're not allowed to answer these types of inquiries". 

Is this the prevalence of the thought police in corporate America?  or are we at the dawn of a new beginning of sort of tea party corporatists (think I just coined that phrase), as evidenced by this SVP in one of the nations top Healthcare organizations:  "It's time to stop focusing on gender and focus on results if we want to be respected as women. Stop whining. I am not in favor of such surveys."  Talent acquisition -- gender neutral, folks.

Wow. Really? I'm inspired, Really.  Sign up for our blog/contact us if you want the forthcoming executive recruiting e-book, it'll     be  i n t e r e s t i n g.