Should I put a photo on my resume?
March 20th, 2009 | No Comments »
Dear Lisa
I’ve been working on getting my wife’s resume updated, and since you had success with the photo inclusion, I thought it might be a good idea for her too. She is an executive assistant, working primarily for company presidents and senior level executives. We took a great, professional looking photo of her. Â Should we add it to her resume?
Thanks!
Rick
Dear Rick
It’s a good question you pose, and there are a number of schools of thought on the subject. The picture worked well for me because I’m in the media/creative field, and would often need to represent the company to the public in some way. I believe a picture would be superfluous on your wife’s resume if she’s in a less visually-oriented field, such as finance, medicine, tech, etc. In your wife’s case, as a high level executive assistant, I would suggest NOT adding the photo, but using that great photo you took on a blog that your wife composes, and putting the link to the blog near the top of the resume. If the HR rep clicks on it, that image will leave an impression, making her more than a block of type on a white page, and showing that she’s web savvy.
Best of luck to you and your wife, and congrats on being such a supportive husband!
Lisa
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