do you know what's annoying?

applying jobs in Indonesia (ie. Jakarta).

optional but recommended requirement is to include your photo.
it might be somewhat naive of me, but aren't the HRDs supposed to decide employees based on skills? I have this thought that HRDs would make a fairly subjective decision if we are to give out self-photos. Sending photos, fine. OK i wouldn't argue about it. but the timing should be after the first selection pool, that is after the first application forms (resume & cover letter), if needed.

i'm very very reluctant to send out my photo to any of the applications, but no matter what, i have to follow culture, don't I?

another thing that bugs me is GPA. We have a different grades scaling here and Indonesia. Firstly, and most important, we don't have GPA! Don't know how to manually calculate, nor given out the calculated score on the transcript. basically, i'm screwed.

why everything have to be specifically graded?

a friend of mine once whinge, if no employers want to hire average fresh graduate without a qualified experience, then how we would ever get to that required experience?
so true.

then again, if things were easy, there wouldn't ever be the term unemployment.