But I completely understand where you are coming from. Photos can cause bias in the hiring process and it's certainly debatable. That's why I've provided the option to either add an image or not have one, and designed the templates especially to fit both use cases.
In Portugal and Spain for example, it is long not welcomed that people send resumes with pictures.
You even have photography shops specialized in doing CV photos.
https://www.studioline.de/fotoshootings-und-preise/bewerbung...
For certain of them you will also get points, if the CV is delivered in a nice portfolio folder, and there are whole sites dedicate to how you should organise the contents of it.
https://www.die-bewerbungsschreiber.de/bewerbungsmappe
Thankfully due to the uniformization of employment rules across UE and the fight against discrimination, that is slowly going away, specially in digital industry where you just get to send a PDF or fill out a form, instead of that bureaucratic process.
But if you are applying to a company where work colleges still talk to each other with formal "Sie" after working together for decades alongside each other, then expect that process to still be the way how everything rolls.
I also seem to remember -- can you either correct me, or confirm this -- in these same companies that expect the photo resume, don't they expect your full salary history as well?
There is a saying, "He who talks money first loses." In the US, I'm certain that I've never seen a resume with salary figures.
I also always found it strange.
IANAL: I don't know if it is outright illegal to request a picture but it sure seems like a great way to open yourself up to a lawsuit.
> Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin > the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), which protects men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment from sex-based wage discrimination > the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older > Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended (ADA), which prohibit employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in the private sector, and in state and local governments > the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which, among other things, provides monetary damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.
The simple reason is that a photo just opens up a ton of bias accusations. There is literally 0 information a photo can provide that can be legally used to make hiring decisions, but on the other hand, there are a whole host of biases it can introduce.