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Unless you are fresh from an undergraduate degree, the thing people care about is what you have shown you can actually do in the industry. And showing what you can do will in most cases instantly identify who you are.

As soon as I say what projects I've worked on or what my skills are anyone recruiting me will know exactly who I am.

How do you get around that?



“Built micro services that served millions of api calls per second in golang” how is that self identifiable?


But how are you going to use something as bland and generic like that to differentiate your applicants?

You've got twenty applicants, and they've all built a production API using Go or some equivalent language and they used some design pattern like micro-services or something else. Now what?

Plus in my field even something as generic as that would identify me.


I still fail to see how that generic tagline (albeit admittedly bad for a resume) is self identifiable. What industry are you in that is so small that one could find you from that?


No system is perfect but it’s at least a step in the right direction for obfuscating gender and race.




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