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I'm not arguing the logic of it, simply stating that, to my knowledge, it's a blanket practice. Discussion, and counter-examples are welcome.

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Counter example: No companies I've worked at had an explicit policy of rejecting a resume with a picture/photo. Whether it was done by some people in practice - unsure.

All of the companies I've worked for _did_ have such an explicit policy, but both of our examples are anecdotal.

The company I work at doesn't have that policy and neither has any other I've worked at.

But @lotusleaf1987, that's just anecdotal :)

That's totally my point, it's all anecdotal until someone does actual research and a poll.

The :) was meant to indicate a bit of sarcasm ;)

Sorry sometimes sarcasm on the internet is hard to grasp. I may also be a bit socially under-developed. ;)

One (sort of reversed) counter example is American Apparel which actively solicits photos in their application:

http://employment.americanapparel.net/employment/index.asp?c...

Edit: This would lead me to believe the law is somewhat up for interpretation and it's not cut and dried, since AA is a pretty big company and I would assume their legal dept had to sign off on this kind of thing. That being said, they are pretty well known for being sketchy and creepy.

American Apparel claims it hires "models" and not merely people with any skill in particular; that's how they get away with discrimination based on physical characteristics.

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