Sorry to be realistic

Job hunting; it is a huge issue for the university students especially in recent years that 50 % of the recent graduate cannot find any job. Becuase of the system of job-hinting in the country I live in, we, the students in the third grade, spend half a year for job hunting; participating seminars, meeting the senior friends working in a company, taking interviews, doing internship, etc etc etc.

I myself am in the middle of job hunting process. And by taking several interviews and talking with HR people, I found a very interesting point that reflects the reality of the society: gender discrimination.

Of course, our society has the gender equality laws and system on the paper. So the company cannot say, "we want to recruit male only" even if the company actually selects male in reality.

However in the recruitment for the university students, the gender discrimination is something that we think "of course" we have. Indeed, not only the HR people but also university students take it granted. Thus for the interview, companies and career centre of the university divide male students and female students so that companies can select X numbers for male and X number for female. Also, what the company expect for future employers are different depending on gender. In fact, company Y recruits males who has a passion while it recruit female who is calm and able to analyze with good eyes. (And often, being good-looking is important for female!)

Gender discrimination exists everywhere. But the job hunting situation was the first environment for me to see the discrimination soooooooooo clearly and SOOOOOOOOOO obviously. We do not even try to hide the discrimination.

By facing with the gender discrimination, I suppose that no students accuse companies for it. First, we want to get a job by being obedient, and second, speaking up for the gender discrimination might be considered as a "childish" reaction. The gender discrimination is the reality of the society. So if we cannot accept the reality, you are just a child who cannot survive in the real society.

We, students, consider such discrimination as an "adult" society. In the adult society, good is not always considered as good. There is something more important than the moral judgement. Am I being too discriminative? Well, I am merely being realistic...?

by S.M.