Modern resumes & cover letters, no:
Home address
Employer address
Legal name (can use preferred names, pronunciation underneath)
Hobbies/interests
"References upon request"
@brainiackim.bsky.social
Canadian from Toronto. Political & news junkie. Work in law, worked on Parliament Hill & Toronto City Council. Loves volunteering to improve the community & world. Advocate for social justice, diversity, equity, inclusion & accessibility. Progressive
Modern resumes & cover letters, no:
Home address
Employer address
Legal name (can use preferred names, pronunciation underneath)
Hobbies/interests
"References upon request"
Job seekers don't realize that it's not required to put your home address or legal name on your resumes & cover letters in Canada. These lead to biases. Modern trend is that b/c it's all online applications. That's what an interview is for, to talk more about your work experiences. No hobbies.
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So cool www.cbc.ca/player/play/... #Alberta #art
03.03.2026 21:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Former Middle East adviser at the US Department of Defense, Jasmine El-Gamal, has it exactly right.
03.03.2026 13:28 β π 5366 π 2249 π¬ 215 π 166Being transparent means people can plan their lives around the cuts instead of being blindsided and some people made decisions based on the assumption they would still have a job.
03.03.2026 21:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0the hiring process because I can't do in-person interviews. They refused that option because I said I was going to be out of country for a month, they wanted to hire in March. Yet, employers bemoans they can't hire qualified job candidates - yet, make the process non-inclusive /2
03.03.2026 18:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Haven't job hunt in private sector for a long time, I had a phone screening interview that lasted 6 mins w/ recruiter for a NGO. Is that a new thing nowadays? Totally rusty in my interviewing skills. Wasn't expecting the upfront Q re: salary & what I make currently (which is higher). Ableism in /1
03.03.2026 18:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"
03.03.2026 03:16 β π 21809 π 7106 π¬ 608 π 269You can be "boulder" and lick them
03.03.2026 18:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Canada is next on the US's hit list.
03.03.2026 17:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Girls and women are victims of rapes during wars.
03.03.2026 17:32 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Insert the names with Trump and you get the truth.
03.03.2026 17:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He ended cutting the Public Service, just worse than PP. At least, PP was transparent about it instead of the sneak attack.
03.03.2026 17:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Parody π
03.03.2026 17:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When #ableism and #ageism intersect www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ABpoli #cdnpoli
03.03.2026 17:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0globalnews.ca/news/1171416... #USpoli #Israel #Iran
03.03.2026 15:27 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0$25M to deal w/ homeless people will help Cdns access healthcare instead of limited resources used by homeless people taking up the healthcare services. Excellent article detailing the challenges of homeless people. Other cities can learn more #homelessness #housing #TOpoli #ONpoli #cdnpoli
03.03.2026 14:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0finetimes.ca/2026/03/03/w... #cdnpoli
03.03.2026 12:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bullies has-beens "Spice Girls" bullying a young women for a differently spelt "Spyce Girlz". There is ZERO confusion with the has-been now-defunct British girl group. #cdnpoli #UKpoli
03.03.2026 02:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It will be the poor and middle-class children who will die in that war, never those billionaires' and millionaires' children. #USpoli #Iran
03.03.2026 01:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just think of smoosh together that Count Dracula has a penny and lived in Transylvania to make Pennsylvania. Cream cheese is named after the city of Philadelphia.
03.03.2026 01:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bone spurs is inheritable, didn't you know?
03.03.2026 00:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I finally got fed up w/ having to dig through emails + bookmarks to figure out where procedural manuals + homepage links are, so after yet another lawyer asked for the same link as another lawyer did, I put all of the links & renamed links into a Word doc & posted it on the group chat. Common sense
03.03.2026 00:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In prisons, they have religious leaders that prisoners can access. Ironic. People can believe in Jesus, etc. and still murder people. Two things can be truth simultaneously. USA allows people to have easy access to firearms, even illegal ones got smuggled into Canada. So many unnecessary deaths.
02.03.2026 23:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A classy and humble man. π
02.03.2026 23:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0King of the Punchline π He's disturbed to get an award half-way through his life, wasn't impressed to get the Lifetime Achievement Award, which is for someone who's old and about to die. He's getting the award just for being alive π€£ HILARIOUS!
02.03.2026 23:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Going for walks, sleep, eat, do something fun, music or comedy.
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