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jciochon | 7 years ago

I attended a tech resume workshop recently and the recruiters there said they would absolutely discard resumes with photos (and other overly personal info) on them due to bias, and were instructed to do so by their employers. Interesting, but understandable.

I do wonder how that reconciles with all the social media around though considering the main way recruiters reach out to me is LinkedIn.

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frereubu|7 years ago

The guidance is absolutely right, but the morals of a sizeable minority of recruiters that I've met have been "flexible" to say the least.

bengale|7 years ago

Yeah at my last job where I used to get CVs I was always told to bin CVs that had photos/age etc. on them.

eb0la|7 years ago

In my country (Spain) you must attach a photo to the CV to get into consideration.

I've been told in Germany you must attach a specific type.of photo, and you must gomtona professional photographer for it