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[Misc] CVs with photos.



Chicken Run

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Jul 17, 2003
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Yeah, you can't move for people selling those.

I know, Amazon is full of traders selling them[emoji6]

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The Clamp

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Jan 11, 2016
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West is BEST
You would have to send two...one for you,one for Nibble.


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Why would I do that? We’re the same person. Nibble is my old user name.
Anyway, enjoy the match. Let’s hope we smash the porridge gobblers.
:)
 


nwgull

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Jul 25, 2003
14,533
Manchester
I’ve received a few with pics on over the years, and I don’t think it a coincidence that they’ve all been from conventionally attractive women. I find it quite annoying, if not slightly insulting to my professional integrity, that they think it’ll make a difference - same with turning up to an interview with loads of cleavage out.
 








Normal Rob

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Jul 8, 2003
5,797
Somerset
I’ve received a few with pics on over the years, and I don’t think it a coincidence that they’ve all been from conventionally attractive women. I find it quite annoying, if not slightly insulting to my professional integrity, that they think it’ll make a difference - same with turning up to an interview with loads of cleavage out.

Putting aside the misguided thinking of theirs, it's also quite a gamble to assume that the interviewer is going to be a heterosexual male, or (not that i think this would ever enter their thinking) a gay female.
 




The Clamp

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Jan 11, 2016
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It’s a bizarre thing to do. Although CV etiquette does seem to change yearly. When I started looking for work it was address and DOB. None of that is required or encouraged any more.
 




nwgull

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Jul 25, 2003
14,533
Manchester
Putting aside the misguided thinking of theirs, it's also quite a gamble to assume that the interviewer is going to be a heterosexual male, or (not that i think this would ever enter their thinking) a gay female.

In my case the interviewees always know that it’ll me interviewing them (and I have an unambiguously male name). That scenario certainly happened more than once to a former female boss of mine though!
 








Paulie Gualtieri

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May 8, 2018
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A few years back I attempt to directly for a junior PEP /sanctions screening role.

A young man took the opportunity to send me a 3 minute “cover video” with his CV. I was intrigued as hadn’t seen this before so gave it a watch. Unfortunately he came across as an arrogant know it all type which wasn’t a great start. The last minute or so was him rattling off his interpretation of the ML regs (which was incorrect) and why he didn’t agree with some of them.

I called him to say he had been unsuccessful and his first response was “have you actually watched the video” “yes, yes I have I’m afraid”


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Doonhamer7

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Jun 17, 2016
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We’ve had photos at work for decades, now we are starting to see the need for CV videos - started in media industry and starting to move into other industries. Gives the D&I people lots of issues
 


Baker lite

Banned
Mar 16, 2017
6,309
in my house
No . . . .but it does make a difference sadly.

As an engineer, its 99% men everywhere I've ever worked.

I’m not sure how old you are, but could that be due to historically engineering has not appealed to women ? Recently, on London Underground about a third of engineering apprentices are women.


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Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee

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Jul 25, 2005
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on a pig farm
I've almost never seen a cv with a photo on when people have applied to me for a job - which is weird because most people's LinkedIn profile has a picture. Then, about 2 weeks ago I got a cv with a picture on! When I opened the thread I thought this might be a discussion about a new trend.

The one I got certainly wasn't a "looker", it was from a bloke in his 50s.
Blokes in their 50s can be lookers.
As can blokes in our 60s:annoyed:
 




Herr Tubthumper

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Jul 11, 2003
62,726
The Fatherland
I've almost never seen a cv with a photo on when people have applied to me for a job - which is weird because most people's LinkedIn profile has a picture. Then, about 2 weeks ago I got a cv with a picture on! When I opened the thread I thought this might be a discussion about a new trend.

The one I got certainly wasn't a "looker", it was from a bloke in his 50s.

Charming. I’m now withdrawing my application.
 


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