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1. A photo on your cv. Or it goes in the bin. I've never understood why this isn't outright illegal. There's literally no reason for it but to discriminate.
by rockdoe 12y ago
1. A photo on your cv. Or it goes in the bin.
I've never understood why this isn't outright illegal. There's literally no reason for it but to discriminate.
- ptaipale 12y agoActually there is a practical reason in some hiring processes: you get many applicants, you look at their papers, then you interview them. Being able to map the face to the correct paper helps, particularly afterwards when you are contemplating the results. At some point earlier in my career I sometimes did a hundred interviews in a week to hire a dozen people. To decide between different people, it was useful to have the pictures attached in application letters. Of course, in addition it can be used to discriminate.
- riffraff 12y agoand what is the practical purpose of marital status and whether you have children? Those are also obvious things that allow discrimination, but I can't think of a reason why they would be of interest to my employeer. EDIT: sorry this sounds a bit adversarial, but it was meant as a genuine question.
- DanBC 12y agoSome companies collect that data so they can check they're not discriminating. Ideally it's on a seperate sheet or different part of the website; the information is psuedo-anonymised and goes direct to HR and never goes to someone doing hiring.
- infinite8s 12y agoIn the US this is typically collected after they hire you (where it can then go into said statistics).
- DanBC 12y agoHow do they check their processes pre-hiring? Like selection for interview?
- ptaipale 12y agoWe did not ask marital status and whether people had children (this was in China: most applicants volunteered that information anyway.)
- riffraff 12y agoI was referring to the "german solution" a few comments up, I thought you did too.