Any reason a company hiring would want a PIC of you before they setup the interview???

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Writing sample is logical, as you want to make sure someone who sends a lot of letters to customers won't make a fool of themselves and the company. If you'd write 'Im teh shizz, hier menow u n00bs!' you can kiss the job goodbye.

A picture might be because they are looking for a representative person who fits the company profile, rather than a 400lbs version of Michael Jackson.

(Edit: We are interviewing new secretaries at the moment, and one person actually send a letter addressed to the wrong company. That's a good way of not making it through the selection.)

 

[clarkmo]

Originally posted by: Krugger

Originally posted by: N8Magic
Isn't asking for a photograph illegal?

(I know it is here in Canada.)

i dont know if it's illegal here, i thought it was. if not, it's at least frowned upon.

Anything that could enable discrimination is illegal. You can take a picture of an applicant but you can't pre-screen based on appearance, unless you wanna defend your methods in multiple lawsuits. Heck, that's probably not a problem as just finding this company appears to be very difficult.

Edit;
Looks like thay're back up and do have regular email. The jobs on their website do not match the monster.com jobs. Wonder if the monster ads are bogus.

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That AOL email keeps looking fishier. Well, give them a call and let us know how it works out.

 

[rh71]

Why are we assuming his friend is female ?

 

[GroundZero]

Originally posted by: psteng19
My friend recently found a job posted on monster.com and applied - their monster ads

They replied via email and asked for 2 recent JPEG pictures sent as an attachment, for ID purposes (as well as a writing sample, which I'm less concerned about).

I don't mean to sound paranoid but it sounds extremely fishy to me...
Why would they need to ID you just for an interview? You're not even hired yet.
That seems very, very personal.

What makes it even more suspicious is that the contact email is from an AOL address.


Anyone deal with something like this before?

could be for security purposes. might need to have a security badge to get into the part of the facility the interview would be in. or possibly, since it looked like possibly a "fashion" job, they don't want to waste their time with the ugly people out there. wich one of the jobs was she applying for? there are like 6 or so from your link.

 

[clarkmo]

she was applying for the job classified as "babe"

 

[BatmanNate]

Is this position in the adult video industry?

 

[amnesiac]

Some jobs will weed out those who don't look "presentable," "professional," or have the kind of image that they require from employees in their company. It saves them time from having to call in someone for an interview to see that they look like a bum.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

lol, AOL addy. They are a "fashion" company though

 

[her209]

Did they ask for a full body shot?

 

[TheCorm]

Originally posted by: clarkmo
she was applying for the job classified as "babe"

ATOT posters find themselves asking for pics of any girls mentioned so much that the possibility of someone asking for a pic of a guy is far too remote

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: N8Magic
Isn't asking for a photograph illegal?

(I know it is here in Canada.)

well if they dont give you an interview you could probably sue them for discrimenation

 

[rayray2]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Writing sample is logical, as you want to make sure someone who sends a lot of letters to customers won't make a fool of themselves and the company. If you'd write 'Im teh shizz, hier menow u n00bs!' you can kiss the job goodbye.

A picture might be because they are looking for a representative person who fits the company profile, rather than a 400lbs version of Michael Jackson.

(Edit: We are interviewing new secretaries at the moment, and one person actually send a letter addressed to the wrong company. That's a good way of not making it through the selection.)

Now that's sig material there!!

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: rh71
Why are we assuming his friend is female ?

I was just gonna ask the same question.

 

[Qacer]

Most HR departments will not accept resumes with pictures on them. I actually did this once during a career fair when I attached a business card CDR with a pic label on my resume. I was told that the HR cannot accept the business card CDR, but it will accept the text resume.

I think the reason is because they do not want to discriminate. People still make judgements based on a person's picture.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

(Edit: We are interviewing new secretaries at the moment, and one person actually send a letter addressed to the wrong company. That's a good way of not making it through the selection.)

Thank god for secretaries who use grammar check before they send out your letters