This may work well once your resume makes it to the hiring manager, but chances are that it won't get that far. Most corporate HR departments will eliminate resumes with pictures to avoid any potential EEOC issues.
It would be interesting if people could submit resumes anonymously, without a picture or name.
I would genuinely be interested in participating in an experiment to compare all resumes with pictures versus all resumes that are anonymous. I would like to be the subject...to review the resumes and see if I'm biased or not. I think that would be interesting.
I see PhDs listing which elementary school they attended, and they start in chronological order so the elementary school is listed first and you have to turn the page to see the PhD.
Frequently no attempt is made to clarify what their previous activity means. PhDs who merely write the title of their thesis to account for those 4 years (applying for first job directly after PhD outside of academia), who the hell knows what they are talking about?
The amazing thing is these (in my opinion) crappy resumes actually landed these people decent jobs.