In my last post on applications commentators discussed briefly the usefulness of candidate photos. This reminds me of one told in a seminar application of the employment office anecdote. A candidate told that he had received his application form once back with the wrong photo. The research showed: The photos of all the submitted application papers were removed and attached to a wall. The future colleagues then looked at all the photos and selected in a pre-selection, for whom they could imagine as a colleague of applicants. The lecturer of the seminar even said that this was not an isolated case and we therefore recommended to attach the photos in removable form: "! Want to be present at the pageant Do not print the photos directly on the paper"
So, I thought that was a bit strange, I must say. Basically, I think Extreme wrong in selection. In the pre-selection only to look to the notes rather than after the picture has not the best way, but only to look after the photo is probably the worst possible form of candidate selection.
this, I must tell my from the U.S. experience that Americans find it totally inclined to apply with a photo. During my time there was an (American) intern advertised with a photograph. She was very pretty and promised therefore possibly an advantage, it certainly was the unanimous opinion! All spoke on "the application of the photo. As she looked in the photo as Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks series in the photo on the DVD menu of the series, was she just "the Twin Peaks girl". When I told my U.S. colleagues that people in Germany, by the way still applies with a photo and I applied to them only because no picture since I researched before, how to apply in the U.S., were the real surprise. "Yes, but ... uh ... really? You can not do? As can be located but may derive from a photo?" Yes, maybe, but Sun
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