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elaina · Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Calgary, Alberta

I am curious. I have received a few different answers to my question, and I was wondering what all of you out there would say. What kind of photo does a prospective employer want to see? Head shot or body? Smile or no smile?

Bayden · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 988

Passport type would do. They just want to make sure you're white.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

IMO, in Latin America at least, a smiling head shot would be best.

Good...(sorry, Latoya simply came up first on google, oddly)

Not so good...

Terrible..

Bayden · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 988

That last one looks like a typical english teacher (assuming he's drunk and passed out on his way home after going to the bar after work, and not dead) Laughing

elaina · Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Calgary, Alberta

Guy, that made me laugh like you wouldn't believe!!! Thanks Very Happy

Dragonlady · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:51 am Post subject:

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Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

yeah, we're never too sure where he disappears to every few months...apparently to some photo studio casting for the upcoming movie Mexican Vampires IV: I Keel Jou Deadth

Ben Round de Bloc · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1946

If Photo #1 were attached to a CV, I'm afraid I'd find it difficult to be very picky about her TEFL qualifications, credentials, and experience.

The guy in the second photo looks kinda like one of my co-workers . . . on one of his better days.

Ya gotta admit that the flowers add sort of a nice touch to the third photo.

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

The guy in photo 3 looks like one of my old DOSes.....

Justin Trullinger · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject:

It's funny- we don't ask for photos as part of an application, but many people send them. (Our institutional position is that we don't care if you're white- as long as you can teach English really well! Very Happy

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When people send them, though, it always kills me when they use class photos...so I get an email saying "here's a photo of me, I'm third from the left," and I open the attachment, and find a photo containing 16 Korean nine-year-olds, with a six-foot white guy in the middle. Like I wouldn't have guessed who was the teacher...

Justin

MELEE · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject:

What if you recieved this one

And the teacher's name was Chris... (or some other unisex name)

Jetgirly · Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 741

I use one of my grad photos from university. It's professional (well-lit, nice background), it is further proof that my degree is legitimate, and I look very white and very cute. I only sent it with applications to European schools (never North American ones!)

Does anyone know if it's normal to send a picture with your resume in Mexico? Thanks!

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

Melee, I thought your husband was Mexican?

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

Geez, MELEE, you don't usually dress like that for work.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City