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Apparently, jealousy plays a role in the hiring process. Oh, and it looks like I should shave down to just a mustache. The facial hair thing may explain my recent promotion, though. 
Europe? That sounds like international news! Thus political content! Isn't this against the CoC?
If you think so, report it.
*shrug*
I'm also about as far removed from regular/professional looking as you can get, but I've never been turned down for a job so far.
Then again I´m a game designer and there aren´t a lot of people with my expertise so maybe they´re just not very picky
I've never included a photo as part of a resume, but it is one of the things that was requested after I'd gotten past the first round of interviews for the job I'm hoping to get.
Send them the one with the leather pants...
I've never included a photo as part of a resume, but it is one of the things that was requested after I'd gotten past the first round of interviews for the job I'm hoping to get.
Send them the one with the leather pants...
My sentiments exactly.
I sent them
And here I was thinking that smile said
"I'm too buzzed to care about how annoying you are"
or
"I'm trying really hard to cover up the fact that I want to put a pencile through your eye because I need you to think that I like you"
Huh.
I'm not particularly gay, but you are a nice lookin' fella!
That's a good picture!
Damn EE!
I'm not particularly gay, but you are a nice lookin' fella!
That's a good picture!
Huh, mabey I'm just not seeing what everyone else is seeing. That strikes me distinctly as a **** eating grin (the rest of the country has that expression, right?). I mean sure, as **** eating grins go, thats a comely one, without doubt.
I think it's more of just putting a face to a name as, if I understand it correctly, the organization has a whole slew of resumes that get passed around between different managers that look for good matches for what they need and having a name/face connection makes it easier to remember a specific person when talking to other managers about who wants which code monkey.
But that's just my guess.
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1Standard practice in the industry, actually. Code monkeys aren't, generally speaking, good at non-jargon talk.
The real reason they wanted a picture is because, being a government job, they're choosing who gets it by pinning all the pictures to the wall, closing their eyes, and throwing darts at them.
[I'm sorry. I will try to be less reasonable in the future.]
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1Less-then-easy way #1: run the picture by the guys that first interviewed me back in late September and see if they remember the face of just one of the couple dozen guys they interviewed that day, when they've been spending a few months going from school to school doing a couple dozen interivews at each. And doing this roughly two months after the interview.
Less-then-easy way #2: ask the NM DMV for a copy of my driver's license photo and hope that (A) it's recent and (B) the NM DMV plays nice. And seeing as NM isn't cooperating on the whole Real ID thing, it's quite possible they wouldn't play nice. Not to mention that when I last renewed my driver's license they still had the photo from when I was 16 in their system, which didn't look a whole lot like me anymore. For some reason the photo from when I was 21 wasn't actually in their system. So it's possible my new one isn't either.
Standard practice in the industry, actually. Code monkeys aren't, generally speaking, good at non-jargon talk.
Unfortunately they are usually replaced by sales-people, who are so good at speaking with non-jargon talk that the purchaser of the software has absolutely no idea what they're really purchasing.