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I got rejected for a $92k job because of my LinkedIn photo. Is this actually real?
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Without being able to see the real picture, there's no way to really judge whether the rejection was valid. If I were a betting man, I'd guess that the company he was interviewing with employs a lot of social-media-savvy people who wouldn't dare upload a profile picture to LinkedIn without it being of the highest professional quality. I'd guess that this guy has a fine picture with mediocre lighting, and the executives think that a middle-of-the-road picture means he won't be detail-oriented on the job. After all, if you're willing to cut corners on your professional headshot, what other areas are you willing to cut corners on?
What I find strange is that it took them until the final process in the interview to point this out. That's what makes me think they were nitpicking because they had two candidates of equal caliber and needed an excuse to reject one of them. They had to comb through their LinkedIn profiles to find the slightest flaw, because in reality, there was nothing about them that made one of them better than the other!
Depending on what the picture actually looks like, he may have been taken out of consideration for jobs previously because of his bad profile picture. But there's no way of knowing the opportunities that never were.
Do you think it's right to reject someone based on the way their LinkedIn profile picture looks, especially if it's totally unremarkable?
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