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Don’t forget LinkedIn profile photo booths! (not kidding, I saw one when I walked past my local MS store)

• nitrogen 6y ago
  This seems like the kind of corporate nightmarish product that could only arise from those two. Even if the "value add" was a pro-level photo to boost job offers, why are we using photos for job offers in the first place?
  • lotsofpulp 6y ago
    Good looking people cause enjoyable chemical reactions to occur in people’s brains. If you take two identically qualified people, the person who appears/sounds more pleasing to the buyer will win the business. It’s part of nature, for better or for worse.
    • nitrogen 6y ago
      Orchestras introduced blind auditions to address this bias. Why don't we do that for other jobs? I say this as someone who would probably fall in one of the categories of people who would supposedly benefit from this bias.
      • jrockway 6y ago
        This is the intended effect of the tech interviews that HN hates so much. Interviewers talk to the candidate and write down feedback about how the interview went. Then a hiring committee reads the notes and makes a decision. The hiring committee never sees the candidate, so can't judge their appearance. When I was doing interviews at Google, we were also trying very hard to write feedback like "the candidate said XXX" instead of "she said XXX", so that that source of bias was not available to the hiring committee. (It's not perfect, of course, because the person writing the feedback can be biased by those things. But it's better than looking at resumes with photos attached.)