Marital Status on CVs

[messiah]

Do you put whether you are married or single on a CV ?

Do you think it has an impact on getting the job ?

eg If they think that you are married will they think you are a desperate bastardo trying to support your family and offer you a lower rate OR if they know you are single ... will they offer you a lower rate because they know that you don't have any dependents to support ?

what do you think ?

[Not So Wise]

Used to put it, dropped it about a year ago as realised it's pointless in this day and age.

[expat]

Do you put whether you are married or single on a CV?

Do you ask your plumber, taxi-driver, or doctor? So why should you go out of your way to offer this personal information to your clients?

[DimPrawn]

I put no personal information. No age, no gender, marital, hobbies, etc.

Clients are buying services not a person. If they don't like they can go to India (and most do and regret it). Which makes me think, do they ask the Indian offshore supplier if Sanjit or Dipak is married? I doubt it somehow.

PS. I do however mention that I am incredibly well endowed. Well there's no harm in boasting is there?

[mcquiggd]

I used to be well endowed, but I liquidated my assets - managed to get out of the housing market at a reasonable price with a cash buyer.

Now, should I pop round the shops to pick up a nice chianti and some proscuitto to enjoy with my Visual Studio 2005 self paced training? (sorry, trying to mix my wild carefree lifestyle with suitable levels of geekdom)

[woo]

just put: gay
then you'll never work again.

or put: married with 4, kids, 10 grandchildren, 20 great grand children
then you'll be too old.
then you'll never work again.

or put: single
assumed as gay
then you'll never work again.

or put: have girlfriend
assumed as gay
then you'll never work again.

or put: nothing
then you might just get somewhere.

[MarillionFan]

Married or Single

I understand that ATW puts "Single and Ugly Bastard" on his.

[AlfredJPruffock]

I think being single is an advantage for short term contracts where you have to relocate, a family man needs to work near home .

[MarillionFan]

"I think being single is an advantage for short term contracts where you have to relocate, a family man needs to work near home ."

I disagree. I think employers think that this man has no life and will be sat in his hotel bar at night downing lager and stalking young estate agents late into the night.

[ladymuck]

I put single, no dependants purely because I worry that (being female) clients/agencies will assume I will want to hear the call of my biological clock at some point and take time off to drop a sprog in the middle of a contract. (Something I have no intention of doing, ever, by the way)

But then, I think I might just drop it from the next incarnation of my CV and see whether anyone even notices!