> - it's illegal in many places to discriminate based on appearance (stuff you can't change) so many employers will discard resumes that contain a photo of the

> - it's illegal in many places to discriminate based on appearance (stuff you can't change) so many employers will discard resumes that contain a photo of the applicant to mitigate future risk So they see his appearance, then discard his resume from consideration. That's Orwellian/paradoxical, boggles my mind actually. On several levels. I mean, it's almost guaranteed they're going to get to see him in person and learn his gender/race/body-condition/approximate-age at some point before a hiring decision is made, anyway. Hilarious! I actually like photos because it makes it more human and realistic. And yes, because sometimes you can see (at least a statistically significant correlation with) certain desired qualities in the way someone's face and body look. Most smart/fit people tend to look it, and vice versa -- not 100% correlation, of course, but statistically significant trends are noticeable over the course of real life experience.