Recruiters, do stop this practice

Recently I have been engaging with recruiters/ recruiting agencies to fill up some technology positions but I keep getting caught off-guard when recruiters ask me a question I did not expect to hear.

I passed them the Job Description (JD) which also includes the requirements or skills needed for the job.

Then recruiters asked racist questions. 😖

I feel like why do you (recruiter) ask these questions and dig up a hole for yourselves? Initially the company or employer did not think of such thing, they were looking at the skills and qualification. Why did you ask such questions and let company think this is a norm, an accepted practice and then limiting your candidate pool and then blaming the company or the market blaming the company for being racist?

I get confused and think Did anything in my conversation or Job Description hinted I would want a certain race? I think the only thing I'm expecting is candidate should be a Malaysian but Did I state any race preference? or a language preference? for this technical job...

For those still clueless, the questions were  1. Does your company accept non-Chinese? or 2. Does your company have any specific "language" requirement, for example say Mandarin?(Note that they are not referring to coding language nor are they really asking this question but hinting whether we are only accepting a certain race)

Then I get annoyed and I ask them :Did I state any race preference?

I dealt with a few recruiting agencies and each recruiter was of different race, there was Malay, Chinese and Indian recruiters and all of them from different recruiting agencies asked the same thing. So it is a recruiting agency culture? Either way, I believe this is bad practice unless of cause the position is a language based task then it is more logical to ask these kind of questions but why would you ask these ? Dear Recruiters please focus on the skills and experience and budget!

Hello World

 Heys all,

So it's been dinosaur years since I blogged. 

Facebook , Twitter, Instagram came around and I guess the urge to be part of the Blogsphere kind of got buried in the attic. I mean Not Literally an attic per say, but you know what I mean right? - Ok Fine, I became lazy.

 It's just so much easier to update status on those platform and have lesser substance or depth to our thoughts. After all, we are turning into a community who prizes the faster and easier,  or I say the Fastlane culture - meaning we have so much distractions and prefer to be Spoonfed, Touch-N-Go, rather than take our time to digest the WHY or think Deeper.

Therefore we just click SHARE and spread fake news like wild fire instead of checking the validity or sources. 

Hmm, Let's see what happened since  I last came up here.

I changed my job, got my heart broken by not trusting my instincts, travelled a little more frequently, almost got into police academy,  was an emcee for a high school friend's wedding- this was kind of ironic as we were not really friends during high school - I was more like her bully in school and now I'm her child's god mother ? Hah, who would have thought right?!