Getting Hired As a Millenial Queer

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Getting Hired As a Millenial Queer
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Austen Crowder
June 18, 2010 9:30 AM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/06/getting_hired_as_a_millenial_queer.php


In case you haven't heard the news, getting hired while LGBTQ can be a little difficult.
I'm not going to talk about inequities here, as others on Bilerico have made pointedly clear. We need job protection, and we need it as soon as possible, no doubt about it. Instead, I want to talk about how to play the hand we are dealt, stilted and stacked against us as it may be. For the most part this means understanding the usual job-seeker advice - network, make a resume, etc. - but there are a few extra wrinkles for LGBTQ people, young and old.

However, every Millenial is stuck with the same aces-and-eights hand. Unemployment in the Millenial generation - across all demographics - is an absolutely terrifying 37%. Jobs are hard to come by in the recession, and will continue to be hard to come by for at least a few years. LGBTQ Millenials, this author included, face a a double whammy: present unemployment rates, plus existing prejudice toward LGBTQ people, plus the fact that people are coming out younger and younger, mixed in with an internet that encourages open participation and never, ever forgets, make a recipe for potential disaster.