In an experiment that involved sending out more than 2,500 resumes either with or without photos of the applicant, economics researchers Bradley Ruffle at Ben-Gurion University and Ze’ev Shtudiner at Ariel University Centre sought to answer the question of whether being good looking could help you find a job. The answer surprised them: Not if you’re a woman. Pretty women faced an uphill struggle to get a chance at a job.
The economists hadn’t reckoned on the fact that 93 percent of the HR staffers deciding whether to call in someone for an interview were female.
Pretty women faced an uphill struggle to get a chance at a job.
Sorry, I don’t buy that. I’ve seen it happen enough times to know otherwise. For crying out loud, this country has the very real potential to elect it’s leader based on how pretty he is.
LOL. And of the group of hirers that were men, what was the result? My guess is that it was overwhelmingly in Favour of the pretty girls.
of course they do . I worked in a small field office in the late 70s. when the accountant hired the administrative gals. yes they were all gals at the time, they were all good looking . one of them wanted more authority so they promoted her. she was a looker. pretty soon she pushed all the other good looking ones out in that catty method of criticism and shunning that only women can muster. and from then on , if you werent an axehandle broad across the backside you didnt get the job. pretty much a 100% weight addition across the board in less than a year
I call bullsh*t. There’s no way in hell that 7% of HR staffers are something other than female.
Another useless study. Wonder how it was funded?
On the other hand gentlemen, having a good looking headshot attached to your resume virtually assures you get a call-in. Because HR chicks are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. Usually ex-cheerleaders, very rah-rah team players and easily swayed by appearances. The sharp knives are up in the executive suite, stabbing each other in the back.
So wear a decently tailored suit with a reasonable haircut, be on time, don’t drool or pick your nose, and the job is probably yours. Back before I learned better, I could get a job at any medium to large company with nothing more than my blue suit and a smile. Experience turned out to be massively unimportant, they hired the friggin’ suit every time. Because: cheerleaders.
The bad part is that now you work at a company where real power is invested in a bunch of rah-rah ex-cheerleaders who do everything based on appearance and nothing based on -reality-. This is a sure way to acquire a healthy case of PTSD unless you have the brain of a football linesman.
Meaning, concussed. Then you’ll fit right in.
Women do run the Western world. We’ll maybe not women, middle aged school girls. And than half of them have pen*ses.
Well there’s Male/Female/Other checkboxes on forms now, so “something other than”.. could well be the case.
And enough with “human resources” already. It’s called Personnel again. “Human resources” is pointing out how the human body can be refined into about one tank of bio-diesel.
Some years ago, I recall reading about a curious — from a man’s point of view — problem in a Silicon Valley manufacturing operation.
There were women technicians working in a “clean room”, which meant that they could not dress up, could not wear make up, et cetera, as the women in the company’s offices did. The women techs wanted a separate lunch room so they could not be compared, side by side, with the office workers.
(I wouldn’t have thought of that, since I find most women attractive, and rarely notice their make up. But I could see their point.)
I guess this would explain why so many of our civilian female beaurocrats are fat, dumpy, and less than average in looks.
Oh…and they are often sour and bitter to boot.
If the HR staff mostly men than Pretty girls are hired. If mostly Women , only the homely. Its just plain Human Nature.
Rates also depend on if your boss is a Women or man in Hiring. Taller men usually get preference.
Its all about attention.
I remember in 1957, while working in the Saskatchewan oil patch, I saw an advert’ placed by a small-town businessman in the local paper for a steno/receptionist. The final line of the ad was “must be young and attractive”. Damned near turned me into a paleo-feminist. Yes, “You have come a long way baby”
Ah yes, wimin in the work place, there are roads best not travelled, as personal secrets may slip out:-))))
yes, most HR females are smart as a box of rocks ( I apologize to rocks:-))))