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I moved to Germany to work from Canada after finishing grad school and was amazed to find applicants put pictures on resumes there. Ironically later we made an
by drpgq 13y ago
I moved to Germany to work from Canada after finishing grad school and was amazed to find applicants put pictures on resumes there.
Ironically later we made an attractiveness estimator and I suggested we use it to screen somebody applying for a secretary position (I was only joking and actually more pointing out the ridiculousness of having photos on resumes).
- orff 13y ago... and not only pictures. it is standard to include your birthday and nationality in your CV in Germany. And sometimes, the early career applicants adds the employers of their PARENTS in their CVs !!!
- guard-of-terra 13y agoMaybe it's actually because people are less afraid of discrimination there? So they don't have to play it safe.
- claudius 13y agoSure, why not? Birthday might not be absolutely relevant, but allows to judge your success at school/uni/education much more easily, nationality is relevant to decide whether they would have to go through trouble to get you employed (if non-European), and the employers/jobs of your parents usually correlate strongly with your own qualifications, at least on a quantitative level. Whether you like the fact that a surprisingly large number of university student has academics for parents, it is still there, and if you want an intelligent person, it might act as a decent filter to look for intelligent parents, especially is said person does not have much experience otherwise yet.
- drpgq 13y agoWow never heard the parents' employers. It's worse than I thought.