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I haven't yet.

I'm considering it because of the popularity of LinkedIn but in the Anglo-American culture and thus most multinational companies - it is frowned upon to attach a photo to your CV.

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This is interesting in terms of the ubiquity of LinkedIn - the lack of a photo on a CV is obviously to do with reducing bias. For example, if a recruiter doesn't know how attractive someone is, that won't influence their decision, and rightly so. But now that everyone's on LinkedIn it's easy to track down someone's photo if you want to. I often do this with clients who approach us through email because I like to have a face in mind when I speak to them on the phone, but it's easy for recruiters to misuse.

I attended a tech resume workshop recently and the recruiters there said they would absolutely discard resumes with photos (and other overly personal info) on them due to bias, and were instructed to do so by their employers. Interesting, but understandable.

I do wonder how that reconciles with all the social media around though considering the main way recruiters reach out to me is LinkedIn.

The guidance is absolutely right, but the morals of a sizeable minority of recruiters that I've met have been "flexible" to say the least.

Yeah at my last job where I used to get CVs I was always told to bin CVs that had photos/age etc. on them.

In my country (Spain) you must attach a photo to the CV to get into consideration.

I've been told in Germany you must attach a specific type.of photo, and you must gomtona professional photographer for it

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