[ChuckNorris89]

>"resumes illegally screened for age"

I'm happy this is a thing in the US and wish Europe would copy this since in some Western European countries like Austria, having your birthday and photograph on your resume is mandatory making discrimination a piece of cake.

[bongobongo]

The idea of having to include a headshot with a job application is insane to me. Unless you are in a public-facing role, your appearances are virtually irrelevant, and the information can only be used to discriminate against you for nefarious reasons.

This seems especially bad in places like France where the government explicitly does not collect demographic information on things like race and ethnicity. It allows employers to screen people based on race, but the government cannot prove it.

[neilv]

Photos are another one in the US, with our wealth of diversity, yet ongoing history of biases and marginalizing.

I used to hear in the US that some companies' HR had policies of discarding all resumes with photos or certain other details, to reduce risk of the company appearing to discriminate on basis of ethnicity or family status, for example. Perhaps apocryphal, but I always heard not to include a photo.

And we heard of studies in which resumes with nothing changed but the name, to a "black" one or a female one, were treated differently.

But then the most popular US resume Web sites introduced photos, to appear alongside your resume and your messages.

[burfog]

Note that a name can only indicate culture, not physical traits. This is a very different sort of discrimination.