Here’s an idea… your picture should not be on your resume, and it shouldn’t be on LinkedIn either.

I don’t even add a picture to my resume. Like sure, a nice picture is probably better than a quick selfie but no picture is the most logical choice, unless you’re applying to work as a model or similar maybe.

Maybe more colored people can speak up to this.

I had to include my photo in resumes.

As a brown dude, I would walk into a interview (or during the pandemic, a video call) and get looks. I got asked racially insensitive questions.

You can say, “That’s illegal!” Or “That’s a red flag!” Yeah no shit. I’m not trying to waste my time at some racist shithole. But welcome to America! You can pretend like it doesn’t exist all you want. It doesn’t change reality.

It was happening so frequently.

Once I included my photo, the questions stopped. If they didn’t want to hire me simply because of the color of my skin, fine by me.

As a side note, I considered using an AI generated picture as my profile picture. I ultimately went with something else.

But if I were ever required by some place to upload a real picture, I’d go the AI image route if possible.

Anything that looks like standard AI output is going to be extremely unfashionable in a year