在中国雇主看来，一张照片比得上简历上的千言万语。
To Chinese employers, a picture is worth a thousand-word resume.
国际人力资源咨询公司SHL的一项调查显示，中国近一半的雇主在招聘新人时喜欢到网上查看求职者照片。相比之下，全世界仅26%的受访者表示他们会这么做。
Nearly half of all employers in China like to check out online photos of potential candidates when hiring new team members, says a survey by global HR consultancy SHL. By contrast globally, just 26% of respondents around the world say they do the same.
中国招聘广告常常公然列出对求职者在身高、体重和性别方面的要求，有时候甚至还有星座要求。深圳一则招聘英语教师的简短广告说“必须是白人”，别一则典型的这类广告则要求“年龄18-35岁”，“女士身高1米58以上；男士身高1米65以上”。
Chinese job ads are notorious for their overt, occasionally blasé descriptions of the preferred height and weight and gender-and sometimes even astrological signs─of candidates. 'Must be caucasian [sic],' writes one laconic ad seeking an English teacher in Shenzhen. 'Ages 18-35,' another typical ad runs. 'Female candidates should be 158cm or taller, men 165 cm or above.'
所以，有那么多中国雇主喜欢到社交网站上查找潜在雇员的照片，或许也就不奇怪了。SHL驻香港的董事总经理赫德利(Stuart Hedley)说，这种做法让人担忧。他说，你得想想，用一个人的照片来预测此人将来成功与否，有多大作用呢？
So perhaps it's no surprise that so many Chinese employers like to consult online social media sites to track down photos of would-be employees. Still, Stuart Hedley, SHL's managing director in Hong Kong, says that such a practice is worrisome. 'You have to wonder, how valid is using someone's photo as a predictor of future success?' says Mr. Hedley.
此前的一系列调查已经发现，歧视性招聘广告在中国屡见不鲜。上个月的一项调查发现，在中国热门招聘网站智联招聘(Zhaopin)上，被调查的招聘广告中10%以上都明确表示要招聘男性或女性。在表示要招聘女性的广告中，雇主同时明确要求找漂亮女性的比例为37%。年龄也被视为重要因素，接近四分之一的招聘广告都有年龄要求。
Valid or not, previous surveys have found that discriminatory job ads in China are widespread. Last month, a study found that over 10% of job ads surveyed on Zhaopin, one of China's most popular hiring boards, said they were explicitly seeking to hire a man or a woman. Among the ads recruiting women, 37% of the time, employers were also explicitly looking for attractive ones. Age was also seen as important, with age requirements surfacing in nearly a quarter of all ads.
那次调查发现，外资公司有性别歧视的概率低于中国民营企业或国有企业。该调查由加州大学圣巴巴拉分校(UC Santa Barbara)和厦门大学的两位教授主持进行。
Foreign-owned films were less likely to discriminate based on gender than private Chinese firms or state-owned enterprises, according to the study, which was conducted by a pair of professors from UC Santa Barbara and Xiamen University.
SHL进行的这次调查发现，中国雇主在网上查找求职者照片的热情远远高于其他国家的雇主。48%的中国雇主会去寻找求职者的照片，美国只有21%的雇主这么干，英国和澳大利亚的这个比例分别为10%和9%。
According to SHL's findings, Chinese employers' enthusiasm for consulting online photos of candidates far outstrips that of their counterparts overseas. While 48% of Chinese employers seek out photos of candidates, just 21% of employers in the U.S. do, while in the United Kingdom and Australia that figure is 10% and 9%, respectively.