I'm Begging for Work

Re:I'm Begging for Work by DanBC on Thursday September 10, 2015 @06:40AM (#10197223)

I'm not surprised that candidates put their photos on resumes or their information sites.

I am surprised that a CEO publicly declares photos to be useful. A photo is clearly bullshit - there's no useful information in a photo (unless it's "here I am accepting $PRESTIGOUS_AWARD last year") - and it raise risk of discrimination claims.

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Re:I'm Begging for Work by coldtea on Thursday September 10, 2015 @01:26PM (#10199353)

>there's no useful information in a photo

There's lots of useful information in a photo.

A talented HR/CEO can size up a lot of things from it, even from the way the candidate is dressed in the photo.

"Hmm, too old, too quirky looking, doesn't look a good fit for our culture, fucking hipster I hate them, too slopilly dressed don't like working with such guys" etc.

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Re:I'm Begging for Work by rev_bird on Thursday September 10, 2015 @03:11PM (#10199935)

I'd wager half of the observations of this "talented HR/CEO" are illegal.

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Re:I'm Begging for Work by coldtea on Thursday September 10, 2015 @04:33PM (#10200377)

I'd wager it depends on the country, plus it doesn't matter, they'd do them anyway and there's not much anybody can do about it.

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