In China, it's also the norm to include a photo with the CV. When I was hiring a team there, all of the applications were de-facto required to have it from the

In China, it's also the norm to include a photo with the CV. When I was hiring a team there, all of the applications were de-facto required to have it from the company perspective. Part of it was an age-ism thing (no older developers need apply was the underlying current), and in the case of office-reception type personnel, it was obvious that it was appearance based.