There was a study that measured the propensity to hire "attractive" members of the opposite sex. Basically, women were much more discriminatory, and hired handsome guys at higher rates than the guys hired pretty girls.
It was also found that people who were perceived as attractive their overall job performance and quality of work were perceived as being better than those less attractive than them. In addition, a ripple effect of this was that they often advance faster in their career. The halo effect continues for many individuals even after their looks fade because people subconsciously still can perceive their good genes.
Has being less attractive than another job candidate hurt you in your career or getting hired for a job?
Do you think ugly people have a harder time getting jobs?
That's probably true to a certain extent, yeah. But I don't think it's only when the opposite sex is hiring, a straight woman may even pick a more attractive woman over a less attractive one if they both have similar credentials. It's really bad in my line of work, acting. One time I bitched out a casting director who had already cast me and was casting the other female lead as a really hot girl with NO TALENT as opposed to a dorkier looking chubby girl who blew me away in her audition. I said "Either you cast the girl with more talent or I'm out" because the model looking girl would have ruined the show she was that damn bad at acting! I ended up getting my way and people kept commenting on how well the girl I wanted to be cast did and i was like "I told you so she was awesome like I knew she would be!". And this girl wasn't even ugly she was adorable and just not as stereotypically "Bombshell" as the other girl. It's definitely worse in some industries.
No, I don't think so. Getting your job depends on how well you can handle the interview process and answer the questions asked, it depends how well the person can present themselves with their body language and so on. Hence even an ugly person can be very skilled in presenting themselves.
Physical looks has nothing to do with getting a job.
However it also depends on the industry where they want to apply, for example if they are looking to go into a modelling industry and they are not that good looking then they will not have any chance there because there they will give importance to looks, the same also applies if they want to get into the job of a air hostess or something, even there they give importance to looks.
Hence some specialized industries/jobs may not prefer people who are physically not good looking. However holding normal jobs are not going to be a problem for people who are not so good looking.
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"Physical looks has nothing to do with getting a job."
Physical Attractiveness Bias in Hiring:What Is Beautiful Is Good
I've heard about the halo effect before and I think its true. It doesn't mean attractive people will be handed great jobs regardless of their skills, it just means that between similarly qualified canidates the more attractive one has the advantage.
It makes sense that being attractive would help you with networking and making positive first impressions. I also think attractive people might be better at socializing or more confident in themselves than ugly people. Also You could have two people say the exact same thing in exactly the same way but it could be percieved completely differently depending on how they look and how they are dressed.
That being said, I think being at the extreme end of attractiveness, ie model quality could cause people to take you less seriously or maybe feel threatened by you. I think its ideal to be slightly above average 7/10-8/10.
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Most male bosses learn their lesson about hiring pretty girls. Typically those women are so spoiled they make horrible workers. Often they expect their male coworkers do do their jobs for them. Ugly girls have to get by on their hard work. Eventually a lot of male bosses only want to hire unattractive women for that reason. I have even heard that ugly women are more likely to get promoted than pretty women. That doesn't surprise me.
By contrast good looking guys are more likely to get promoted, than ugly guys. I don't know why I was hired, or refused by certain interviews. I am sure looks does play a role one way or the other though.
I think attractive people can have an advantage, yes. A former manager of mine interviewed an attractive woman for a technical job who FAILED the entrance exam. While any other applicant would have been rejected, he gave her a copy of the exam and told her to study it and come back in two weeks to try again! She passed it of course and was hired. Not every manager is like that, but it does happen.
No, I'm not good looking and actually do pretty well once i get to the interview stage. I just present myself well, speak well and give them a compelling reason to hire me. Getting to the interview though... that's a big hurdle for me.
It's actually a fact that they do. There is research that shows a trend. It may not be an actual fact but it's definitely a statistical trend
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With that being said. Seeing Caucasian beauty standards are displayed as the ideal for beauty in the media and black people often have a contrast to Caucasian features. Do you think that plays a role in black unemployment?
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