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These problems don't go away by not including a picture... In Germany a resume without a picture looks odd.
by auggierose 7y ago
These problems don't go away by not including a picture... In Germany a resume without a picture looks odd.
- changchuming 7y agoIt does reduce bias in the screening stage, which is exactly what its intended purpose is.
- majewsky 7y agoBut it's not something that you can decide to do as a candidate. Without a picture, you're the oddball that doesn't get past the first screening.
- rsynnott 7y agoHas this changed as hiring gets more international? When I started seeing CVs with pictures I thought it was really, really weird, but I soon realised it was just the norm in some countries. I still think CVs with _pie charts_ are pretty weird, tho...
- majewsky 7y agoFWIW, I'm with you on pie charts. :)
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoThat is only true when everyone else includes a picture. As others said it is great in the US that nobody includes pictures on their resume.
- googlesux 7y agoYou live in a homogenous white country I'm sure your situation is different than the US.
- learc83 7y agoWhat's the benefit to employees and employers?
- tdfx 7y agoThis reminds me of a funny conversation I had with a coworker: he's black and was complaining that his sister named his nephew "Lashawn" (for those outside the US: it's a very stereotypically African-American name). He remarked: "do you want his resume to go directly to the trash bin every time?" Funny at the time but kind of depressing in retrospect.
- sooper 7y agoI have to add the obligatory reference to Freakonomics and the impact your name has on "how a child performs in school and even her career opportunities". Great write up in either the first or second Freakonomics book about how adversely impacting being called Jasmin is in the the US. [0] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-much-does-your-name-matter-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/ http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-much-does-your-name-matt...
- jonathankoren 7y agoDr. Marijuana Pepsi, holds a doctorate in higher education leadership. Her dissertation was entitled, “Black names in white classrooms: Teacher behaviors and student perceptions." https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/columnists/jim-stingl/2019/06/18/stingl-her-name-marijuana-pepsi-and-she-just-got-her-doctorate/1477709001/ https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/columnists/jim-stingl/20...
- blaser-waffle 7y agoWe call her Mary Jane Pepsi
- jonathankoren 7y agoShe goes as Marijuna, but in some situations, she goes as “M P”.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoI know your coworker was probably exaggerating for the point of the joke but Lashawn isn't even that bad. It's when people slam together parts of three different names to make some four syllable albatross of a name that your resume gets trashed by default. There's also white people names that will get your resume trashed for implying low class but they tend to lack the aural flare that stereo-typically low class black people names have.