Good Looks Don't Always Secure a Job Opportunity.

You must be wondering, how can this be. In this practical and cruel world, having good looks will make your life so much easier. This is because people are always bias, ok wait, maybe I should phrase in a nicer way, people are NATURALLY bias towards good-looking people. There is nothing wrong here. I admit that I do admire good-looking people on the streets everytime. Therefore, I think its really a bonus to be good looking.

My cousin who is a HR executive once told me that sometimes she don't mean to show favoritism towards good-looking people but its just natural instinct that made her tend to be nicer towards them. Of course good looks don't mean everything. But remember, the interviewer doesn't know you inside out, they can't judge your skills or character just through one interview. Thats why we have to always give a good impression. The first 30 seconds of a interview is critical where the interviewer will create an impression of you. So if you are good looking or pleasant, you've created a good impression and it will be half the battle won.

If you've been following my blog, you should know that I am currently looking for a job. It didn't go smoothly for me as I've mentioned in my previous post, I sent ten resumes and only two replied me. So I thought it must be that my resume is not impressive, I've no work experience or the picture of my face attached to the resume simply cmi. lols.

Seems legit so far, but it was until yesterday when I was looking at tips for interviews, I came across this interesting article which I want to share with you.

"According to their research, good-looking females received 6% fewer callbacks than plain-looking females and 23% fewer callbacks than women without pictures."

AND THE EXPLANATION IS THAT,

"HR departments are commonly staffed by an overwhelming majority of females. The more good-looking applicant may be viewed, subconsciously or otherwise, as a threat to overall workplace well-being and self-confidence—especially if the hiring staff think themselves aesthetically inferior to the female applicant in question. "

Credits  to stjobs

WTF, so that means you can actually not get selected for job interviews because you are too good-looking and the HR staff is just simply jealous and inferior to have you around the workplace. This is quite sad, really. To a certain point, its a hard fact.

Though male bosses might highly prefer good-looking females employees so that there will be something for them to look forward to in the workplace, LOL, but even before the bosses can meet you , the HR staffs already filter the candidates and gives you a red card. So for male bosses and workers, if you always wonder why your comapany no pretty ladies, now you know who to blame. Hahahaha.

This article extremely interesting and I extracted out the important parts. The article even mentioned that good-looking males will get an advantage because the HR staffs are just horny. LOLS. ok, the latter one is said by me. You can read the article here!

So now I finally understood why I receive so few replies from the companies. Tmd, 原来都是HR搞得鬼! I don't mean to accuse all the females working in the HR department, don't blame me, that's what reported in the article and me wanting to end the post with a self-praise. LOLOL!