Not at all, yes it is a requirement in traditional German companies, but not in most EU countries nor in German companies that are now fully digital in their hiring process.

In Portugal and Spain for example, it is long not welcomed that people send resumes with pictures.

It's a requirement to have your picture on your resume? That seems rather antiquated and bias producing...

For very traditional companies, yes.

You even have photography shops specialized in doing CV photos.

https://www.studioline.de/fotoshootings-und-preise/bewerbung...

For certain of them you will also get points, if the CV is delivered in a nice portfolio folder, and there are whole sites dedicate to how you should organise the contents of it.

https://www.die-bewerbungsschreiber.de/bewerbungsmappe

Thankfully due to the uniformization of employment rules across UE and the fight against discrimination, that is slowly going away, specially in digital industry where you just get to send a PDF or fill out a form, instead of that bureaucratic process.

But if you are applying to a company where work colleges still talk to each other with formal "Sie" after working together for decades alongside each other, then expect that process to still be the way how everything rolls.

I remember a lot of this from when I lived in Germany.

I also seem to remember -- can you either correct me, or confirm this -- in these same companies that expect the photo resume, don't they expect your full salary history as well?

There is a saying, "He who talks money first loses." In the US, I'm certain that I've never seen a resume with salary figures.

While we're on Germany, why is it common practice in the German press to specify the age of any person in a print article? Even when it is irrelevant to the content of the article?

No idea actually.

I also always found it strange.

That’s really interesting! I’ve never gotten a resume with a photo here in the US.

In the US there is a lot of law that makes employment discrimination illegal for a number of classes of people.

IANAL: I don't know if it is outright illegal to request a picture but it sure seems like a great way to open yourself up to a lawsuit.

> Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin > the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), which protects men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment from sex-based wage discrimination > the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older > Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended (ADA), which prohibit employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in the private sector, and in state and local governments > the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which, among other things, provides monetary damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.

https://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html

In the US a resume with a photo will be discarded immediately by most companies. I suspect companies have written policies that say no photo resumes allowed.

The simple reason is that a photo just opens up a ton of bias accusations. There is literally 0 information a photo can provide that can be legally used to make hiring decisions, but on the other hand, there are a whole host of biases it can introduce.

Then you shouldn,t be allowed to put your name on your application either.

This is why some people choose to use their initials.

It used to be the expected norm, but nowadays a lot of the larger companies actively say they don't want pics, and depending on job sector, more and more people tend to not include them regardless.

Also the address can be used to harass or stalk women. My friend had her address in her resume and uploaded it to naukri.com. Some random guy showed up at her doorstep claiming that he had a job for her. They called the police immediately and he ran away. It was crazy and tools like this can add a note about the potential security implications.

Woah, that sounds scary. Can't say that I don't believe it though. Some people are just that creepy.