Signatures on resumes: yes, no, maybe?

Signing the resume is German tradition – required it is not, harmful it rarely is.

Custom and effect

• Custom: common in Germany, unusual to unknown abroad.
• Effect: signals care – it changes nothing of substance.
• Required: no – no role fails on a missing signature.

Technically clean

• Scan it: sign on white paper, scan, trim.
• Embed it: as an image in the place-date line – subtle, not huge.
• Name stays text: parsers need the name as text, never image-only.

In the editor the signature is decoration – your name always stays machine-readable text.