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Employers should be able to hire whoever they want. If they want to hire an attractive person over an unattractive person, let them. If they want to hire only males, or females, or whites, or blacks, let them. This is why I feel affirmative action is stupid. Why should there be quotas for minorities or any other group of people? Employers should be able to make their own hiring decisions without interference from Big Daddy Government.
If that ever happened most of the US population would remain unemployed!
This is despicable. To tell potential employees they need degrees, and then not hire them because they are not "beautiful" is shameful at best! you all HRs should be ashamed of yourselves! This kind of shallow mentality only shows complete lack of common sense!
If that ever happened most of the US population would remain unemployed!
This is despicable. To tell potential employees they need degrees, and then not hire them because they are not "beautiful" is shameful at best! you all HRs should be ashamed of yourselves! This kind of shallow mentality only shows complete lack of common sense!
You said 2 different things:
(1) It's shameful
(2) It's nonsensical
The first is a value statement; the second isn't. So, what exactly is your beef with hiring good-looking people, whether consciously or subconsciously? Is it because you think it's "wrong" or because you think it's impractical from a business standpoint? And who are you to tell a business what is practically best for them? Maybe a business thinks that image, people who represent the face of the business, is very important and makes the business more profitable.
If that ever happened most of the US population would remain unemployed!
This is despicable. To tell potential employees they need degrees, and then not hire them because they are not "beautiful" is shameful at best! you all HRs should be ashamed of yourselves! This kind of shallow mentality only shows complete lack of common sense!
Well they are telling people they need degrees, and they are obviously hiring someone. The people not getting hired don't know why. It could be for one reason, or a combination of reasons. A certain weight might be assigned to being "beautiful", but there are certainly other factors they consider also. The corporate offices with the best paying jobs seem to have the most "beautiful" people, so they must be doing something right or they would not be in business and offices with the overweight, short and ugly people would be overtaking corporate America.
And just think, your spending 40+ hours a week with these people. Probably more than with your family. I'd much rather be surrounded by beautiful women who also happen to be smart and educated.
For men, attractive= tall. There are far more tall men in senior positions. 30% of CEO's are above 6'2". 90% are taller than average. And don't confuse age with looks. Many in senior positions are older, but good looking for their ages. The people who look good in low skilled positions look good because they are younger and they don't pay much because those positions don't require an education and not every young good looking person has a collee degree
Robert Redford was born in 1936. He is turning 77, next month, and still looks good. They are 40-something ugly men that Robert Redford(77 yrs old) and Clooney(52 yrs old) would put to shame. I have met VPs from JP Morgan Chase for job interviews. I have seen other VPs from clients in the banking and finance industry. Most of them are overweight and average looking. They are no more dorky or better shape than the average guy.
Robert Redford was born in 1936. He is turning 77, next month, and still looks good. They are 40-something ugly men that Robert Redford(77 yrs old) and Clooney(52 yrs old) would put to shame. I have met VPs from JP Morgan Chase for job interviews. I have seen other VPs from clients in the banking and finance industry. Most of them are overweight and average looking. They are no more dorky or better shape than the average guy.
1. My post was regarding height.
2. Looks are subjective and I can't argue about something you said you saw.
3. Studies say that you are wrong, or that your isolated anecdote does not reflect the reality.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that since people tend to view tall people as more intelligent, more authoritative, etc, that having more exec-level men who are tall is self-selecting.
If you hired a few guys into a company at the same level, and one was 5'7" and the other was 6'1", it's very likely that their various peers, direct reports, and managers over the years will rate the taller guy as a better performer. He'll be given more opportunities, and will have the chance to develop a better resume.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that since people tend to view tall people as more intelligent, more authoritative, etc, that having more exec-level men who are tall is self-selecting.
If you hired a few guys into a company at the same level, and one was 5'7" and the other was 6'1", it's very likely that their various peers, direct reports, and managers over the years will rate the taller guy as a better performer. He'll be given more opportunities, and will have the chance to develop a better resume.
I agree, from personal experience. I have always been tall, but as a teen I was skinny, nerdy, and clumsy. I got picked on a lot. I noticed that people always gave me the doubt of the doubt so to speak when it came to everything. Sports, intelligence, hearing what I had to say. I was always a good baseball player, but I felt like I always got cut because I didn't fit that image of a jock.
Well fast forward to now and I am still tall, but I filled out and matured and most people consider me attractive for a male. I'm the same person I was as a kid, but people always give me the benefit of the doubt. They hear me out, take me seriously when I talk, assume I'm smarter than I am a lot of times, and assume I have a real good job. I KNOW that people treat me differently now.
There have also been instances in college and new jobs where I am always sitting down before other people arrive to class/work, and we're never standing side by side. Well I swear by this, but when we eventually stand side by side they say, "I never knew you were so tall." Well I swear by it that I notice from that point forward that they treat or talk to me a little differently when they realize how tall I am. I'm sorry, but its true.
And this does give more attractive people better opportunities and therefore unfair opportunities to further develop their skills and knowledge.
Cite for this please? Because at the very highest levels (Forbes 400) there are a surprising number of really short guys.
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Well I swear by it that I notice from that point forward that they treat or talk to me a little differently when they realize how tall I am. I'm sorry, but its true.
That's not a very good cite
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And this does give more attractive people better opportunities and therefore unfair opportunities to further develop their skills and knowledge.
You keep conflating height with good looks, and excoriating others (right above) for doing so.
Here's a typical short-guy boss. He hates tall people and you wouldn't want to work for him.
Have a look at the Forbes 400. A lot of them are short, and many (such as Sheldon Adelson and Michael Bloomberg) are very short.
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