I've come across this during recruiting from a few other countries as well. It's standard practice in some locations to incorporate photos, father's job and other details in which we may not request from US applicants.
-----Original Message----- From: Darren Duncan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 11:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Singapore jobs - culture and similarity? Hello, I've noticed during the last couple weeks two job postings ... 1. http://jobs.perl.org/job/13380 2. http://jobs.perl.org/job/8974 ... and am wondering if any of you have experience concerning such. For example, the above 2 have a number of similarities but talk like they are unrelated. Also, how appropriate is it to be asking an applicant for their photo, which both of these do? Maybe its a different culture thing with Singapore, but as far as I know in North America it is inappropriate to be asking for a photo with an application, same as it is inappropriate to ask questions on one's family status or religion or politics etc in a job interview. Do or have any of you worked for a Singapore company and do you have any thoughts concerning these postings? -- Darren Duncan
