Indianapolis Employment Law Blog

One of the most common things you will find on a job posting is an educational requirement. Most jobs require a high school degree; many require a college degree.

While you may not have thought twice about this before, consider the fact that not everyone has these degrees. If the company requires them, does that discriminate against potential workers who do not have them? Is that legal?

It’s difficult to find a job. You could get lucky and secure the first or second position you apply for but often the process takes weeks or months. You display three versions of yourself in each application process: the resume version, the in-person interview version and the social media version. The in-person version and digital (social media) version can showcase the most drastic difference.

Some people use their social media pages (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Snapchat) like their own personal diaries. While in a delicate situation like trying to find a job or a professional situation, it is never wise to spout off about your personal problems to the masses on your social pages. We all need to vent, but why to hundreds of strangers when some of these strangers could be your potential or current employer?

When you experience racial discrimination and rejection, it impacts you in many ways. Some of these, you are probably well aware of. You feel angry. You feel frustrated. It makes you irate, as it should. Discrimination is not just illegal, but it is an attack on a personal level to things outside of your control.

However, did you know that your body responds in some ways that you may not even be conscious of? Researchers studied it, and one noted that "the race of the person who rejects you alters the responses to social rejection."

Many women face multiple forms of discrimination at work. You might think that this discrimination is glaring and bold, such as denying a woman a promotion or keeping them from executive-level positions.

While this is true in some cases, there are often more subtle forms of discrimination and undermining women face at work. The bigger, more clear forms of discrimination are wrong, but the smaller examples should not be ignored either.