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Try Nemcv.com. There is only one design (candidates often hate this), because it is designed for the way that companies like to see candidates.

It allows you to focus on the content, not the style of your CV

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Do you really submit your cv with a photo? Never happens in UK - and you're actually told not to.

It's not required here in UK but I do embed a small photo in the word document.

I use QR code (linking to my website) instead of photo. This combines advantages of a photo (grabbing attention) yet doesn't have its disadvantages.

Interesting, here in Uruguay it's the opposite, for many positions you won't even be considered without a photo.

I understand where the UK's rule comes from, it should be better to let qualifications stand on their own.

Who tells you not to submit a photo? The hiring manager?

It's just not normal to include a photo.

Photos as part of hiring carry risks for the company. Companies must not use some information (age, sex, disabilities, etc) in their hiring decisions and photos can divulge some of that information.

Photos can strongly suggest things like race and gender, but those and other prohibited axes for discrimination by most employers can also be strongly suggested b names, names of schools, names of particular awards/achievements, and names of past employers and jobs (particularly, e.g., when those employers are the kind that are permitted certain forms of discrimination that is generally prohibited.) Further, photos don't provide indication of anything that the prospective employer wouldn't get from an in person interview, which is a common step in the hiring process.

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