The Photo on Your Page

This site provides office-seekers with a unique opportunity to put up not only a detailed resume but a photograph. Of course, importance of a photo for a recruiting site is not as crucial as it might be for a dating site, but nevertheless it may serve as a ponderable argument both pro and con in the issue of considering your application.

In the first instance, you photo should be of good quality. A huge canvas of the finest resolution with a professional designer’s elaboration is not the question. There is no need to ping-pong through the Internet with excessive megabytes. However, a tiny mobile-cam shot that can hardly help you to scrutinize one’s face will make an employer think that the owner of this photo is untidy and disorderly person or just is not interested in obtaining the position.

A recruiting site photo has nothing to do with the identity paper head-shot. Its task is to make a particular impression on the employer rather than help to identify your personality. Thus, there is no special need to take a formal direct angle shot representing on it in severe suit against a white background. It depends on a professional line you find most favorable for a particular position. You can take a shot of yours at the desk, in front of the computer or at the wheel of your car. The main thing about it is to remember that you are applying for a job, which makes it inappropriate to put up an amazing photo taken during a holiday trip or a party, unless you put in for a position of a tour guide or a social director. There should be minimum abstractive details on your photo. Try to make it so that there was no need to comment that you are “the face in the top right corner.

Your image as it represents on the photo can be serious, aggressive, friendly or creative. It depends on the position you are applying for. Your clothes, hairstyle, accessories, make-up, posture and countenance should be chosen on this basis. For example, if the assumed position supposes regular contacts with various people, you should create an image of a friendly, gentle and sociable person. However, if your position first of all demands accurate concentrated work with numbers and papers, your image should be more severe, serious and reserved.

If you are applying for several vacancies at a time and these vacancies differ a lot in the type of activity, you’d better to register several separate pages with different photos and resume. And, to sum up, here is the last and the main piece of advice. Try to imagine what kind of person you would like to see as a candidate for your vacancy if you were an employer and what impression the photograph you placed in your own questionnaire would make on you.

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