Comment by iwangulenko
4 years ago
European tech recruiter here (again).
If I want to discriminate against you, I will anyway do so latest during the onsite.
I often have to skim through 200 CVs in a day and do >10 calls. I find it very convenient to have a face attached to the CV, because it helps me remember the person.
People hire people and people have faces.
I understand why people feel it is a burden to make and put a photo on the CV but I see so much updside also for candidates that I always recommend to add a photo. Here in Europe it's not forbidden but actually common. If you don't do it, you're the weirdo and your profile might get forgotten/ignored. Why risk this? I made a video to explain this once and not have to tell this to people again and again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELX85HAhHew
> If I want to discriminate against you, I will anyway do so latest during the onsite.
It is different. Many people want to maintain their image out of the public internet. I would never use a service that forces me to show my face to the public (not that there's anything wrong with my face, I just want it that way).
Usually, the firms require a PDF CV, so it is a private document shared between you and them, and it gets deleted after some weeks.