Recruiter asking for picture

[ContractorHardman]

Just make sure you have a professional photo to hand. The amount of times I see people put pics of themselves on a night out in LinkedIn or a picture of them with sunglasses, a hat and holding a fish is unreal. Its LinkedIn, not facebook.

I have seen girls in Bikini pics but they are professional trainers, glamour models, etc. They do however leave themselves open to guys who treat LinkedIn as a dating website!

[seanraaron]

You'd want ID before an interview to confirm that the photo sent by the agent was the person who attended.


If the ID comes after the interview then the ClientCo would need to take a photo of the interviewee to confirm it matched.

That seems okay, why not book the interview on the basis of the CV and photo after for the reasons you've stated? If it's not a face-to-face then obviously if the person who turns up for the job on day one isn't the person in the submitted ID then you just tell them to take a hike. Seems less risky to me.

[WTFH]

That seems okay, why not book the interview on the basis of the CV and photo after for the reasons you've stated? If it's not a face-to-face then obviously if the person who turns up for the job on day one isn't the person in the submitted ID then you just tell them to take a hike. Seems less risky to me.

Because who says the person submitting the ID is the person being put forward for the role?


They don't use the photo for the BASIS of the interview, but for a security check. I know the Daily Fail may tell you otherwise, but businesses are looking to hire quality consultants. Some people would send a different person to the interview to secure a high rate of pay, then send in an idiot to do the job, hoping no one would notice.
(It's KPMG/Deloitte's standard business model)

[MrMarkyMark]

Some people would send a different person to the interview to secure a high rate of pay, then send in an idiot to do the job, hoping no one would notice.
(It's KPMG/Deloitte's standard business model)

Yes, in the case I faced the guy went, on a Friday, from a sociable, outgoing, capable technical person, into a reclusive, useless, technical retard, over the weekend.

TCS consulting, should anyone want anyone similar.

[SueEllen]

That seems okay, why not book the interview on the basis of the CV and photo after for the reasons you've stated? If it's not a face-to-face then obviously if the person who turns up for the job on day one isn't the person in the submitted ID then you just tell them to take a hike. Seems less risky to me.

Use Skype or similar.

There are lots of ways of checking the person is who you interviewed.

[seanraaron]

Because who says the person submitting the ID is the person being put forward for the role?


They don't use the photo for the BASIS of the interview, but for a security check. I know the Daily Fail may tell you otherwise, but businesses are looking to hire quality consultants. Some people would send a different person to the interview to secure a high rate of pay, then send in an idiot to do the job, hoping no one would notice.
(It's KPMG/Deloitte's standard business model)

I don't see how having a photo really protects you from someone using a bogus CV - or are you suggesting there's a lot of people out there doing interviews on behalf of others? Surely a Panorama episode should be in the works for that story!

It still seems like an unnecessary legal risk to me to ask for a photo. Surely an ID, birth certificate and voting record would suffice?

[MrMarkyMark]

I don't see how having a photo really protects you from someone using a bogus CV - or are you suggesting there's a lot of people out there doing interviews on behalf of others? Surely a Panorama episode should be in the works for that story!

It still seems like an unnecessary legal risk to me to ask for a photo. Surely an ID, birth certificate and voting record would suffice?

I know there are people doing interviews for others, as I said earlier
How many, I don't know, but speaking to colleagues, most have heard of it, or witnessed it directly.

[TheFaQQer]

It still seems like an unnecessary legal risk to me to ask for a photo. Surely an ID, birth certificate and voting record would suffice?

Birth certificate you can order from ancestry and says "this is not a form of ID".

[seanraaron]

Birth certificate you can order from ancestry and says "this is not a form of ID".

All together of course!

[seanraaron]

I know there are people doing interviews for others, as I said earlier
How many, I don't know, but speaking to colleagues, most have heard of it, or witnessed it directly.

That's crazy, you almost have me feeling sorry for godless corporations! I've actually been a hiring manager (though thankfully we had a recruitment group to filter CVs and talk to agencies) and I've never encountered this. My biggest problem was having to ride shotgun with another manager who thought every interview should start with a thirty-minute history of our corporation...zzzzzzz