Beauty may be only skin-deep, but when it comes to job hunting, the better-looking you are, the more likely you are to get hired. Unless, you are a woman, that is.
According to Recent Research, good looking men were 50 % more likely to get called for job interviews, but good looking women were much less likely to land an interview.
Next According to the Re-Searchers, most corporate human resources employees sorting through resumes are young, single women; presumably, they weren't keen on hiring the competition. Though it may sound sexist, the researcher’s methods appear to support their claim.
The study involved sending 5,312 resumes in pairs to 2,656 advertised job openings in Israel. In each pair, one resume was without a picture while the second, otherwise almost identical resume, contained a picture of either an attractive male or female, or a plain-looking male or female.
The researchers noted that unlike in the United States, in Israel it is not unusual for job candidates to include a photo with their resume.
The number of attractive women that were subjected to discrimination varied on who was hiring them, the research shows. When employment agencies received resumes for positions, attractive female candidates were no worse off than plain candidates and penalized only modestly compared to no-picture females.
"Indeed, the evidence points to female jealousy of attractive women in the workplace as a primary reason for their penalization in recruitment," Ruffle said.
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