Companies ask for full-body picture in resume

Some companies ask for personal information irrelevant to job skills when they hire new employees, a government survey showed Wednesday.

The Presidential Committee on Young Generation analyzed resume format of 95 companies over the past two months (February- April).

It showed 93 .7 percent asked for education background (name of the university) while 28.4 percent asked whether they transferred from a lower level university.

Of the firms, 74.7 percent asked for a photo.

A company in the service sector even asked for a full-body picture alongside height and weight of the job aspirants.

Some 39 percent asked about the parents’ educational background and income level while 16.8 percent questioned their marital status, and 21.2 percent asked for religious backgrounds.

The report said that “companies still ask for information that is unnecessarily personal and many them might be deemed as grounds for discrimination.”