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Landing a Job Interview in Germany Is All About Your Headshot
- leonry 4y agoArchived version: https://archive.ph/04a9t https://archive.ph/04a9t
- hatmatrix 4y agoClickbait title. A headshot appears to be important by custom but beyond that, there's no indication that it's a determining factor. > A survey of HR representatives and hiring managers at German firms showed that more than half considered including a photo important, according to recruitment website Indeed. One in five said they wouldn’t consider an applicant who didn’t provide one. > Not listing a date and place of birth would prompt 23% of the surveyed recruiters to disqualify them, the Indeed report said, and 13% considered providing information on citizenship a must. Some 8% said they ignore CVs that don’t include how many children an applicant has, even though it’s illegal to ask for such information.
- kramerger 4y agoWhat is the reason for all this? Sounds like most of these are created to disqualify people for one reason or another.
- TrackerFF 4y agoThis is a hard one. Back in the day, I though that the following things should be removed from all resumes / CVS - Gender - Date of birth - Photos - Religion - Dates of schools and employment etc. But as it turned out (https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/discrimination-hiring-and-anonymous-cvs-france-cv-anonymes https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/discrimination-h...) - this did not at all stop discrimination against marginalized groups etc. IIRC, it actually made them worse off - because fundamentally strong candidates stood out in the resumes anyway, while weaker candidates still looked weak - and instead if giving the benefit of doubt to marginalized candidates, they now just looked like regular weak candidates.