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Ask: How do you handle your résumés?
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I'm a consultant so whenever I'm applying for a new gig I need to provide a consultant profile, which is very similar to resume.
Over the years I've learned that most customers are not very interested in the "personal stuff" sections - they just want to know you have the skills required, so try to minimize the amount of personal data and concentrate on skills and past gigs (anonymizing customers/companies) etc.
But - unfortunately you have to tell something about yourself and your ability to work together with others, there's really no way around it. It's also more and more customary that (for some reason) they want your photo. Stuff like education, certifications need to be there, but keep it very short. Think about "social media profile page".
Provide stuff like contact info, address, phone, date of birth (if required) and references separately - don't put them into your resume. You can add something like "Personal information and references provided separately by request" in there, that way, even if the document is shared, all they get is something resembling a LinkedIn profile.
You can also try to add "confidential" to the document header, but I've noticed it's not respected very often.
Gotta keep the people with different skin colour out
Never include a photo in the US. Most companies will immediately discard anything with a photo due to the risk that it can bias the evaluator, intentionally or unintentionally, in terms of race, sex, or age.
My LinkedIn has a real picture and it's linked on my resume, but I'd never put my picture ON the actual resume. That just seems like a bad idea all around.