Hiring Practices Influenced By Beauty

Science Daily ^ | 1-3-2008 | Blackwell Publishing Ltd..

[LetsRok]

Who doesn’t want to work with a hottie? The dumber the better.

[cdcdawg]

next thing you know they will produce a study showing that more attractive people are found to be more attractive.

[avacado]

This article has merit — I get showered with job offers.

[2harddrive]

DUHHHH!

[Plains Drifter]

The babes on Fox News come to mind.

[Eagle Eye]

Damn. And you know I had to look!

Ewwwww......

[Maceman]

I was once a part owner of a commercial financial services business. I had to hire a lawyer to report directly to me. One day this female applicant showed up who was so breathtakingly drop dead beautiful that I couldn’t even concentrate on the interview.

I didn’t hire her, because I knew I would never get any work done with her around.

[A knight without armor]

Probably really a man!

[heartwood]

There was a highly significant increase in the anticipatory EDR when the male interviewers assigned the low status job packages to the attractive female candidates. The fact that this difference only occurred when assigning low status job packages ensures that the effect could not have been driven by interpersonal attraction, but rather by emotion.

So could one infer that men handing out low status packages to attractive women were anticipating opportunities to help them, er, better their status? Or just having fun setting them in their place?

[Tainan]

This explains why I work for myself...I'm ugly and have a bad attitude.

[xtinct]

2000 - owner hired two drop-dead gorgeous 25+ women as his administrative assistants...

2002 - office in shambles, women came to work 1 or 2 days a week (They were paid full time.)

2003 - owner fired the hotties and surrendered all hiring to me (database and web developer)

2003 to present - all is well ... * chuckle * (especially loved my big pay raise and bonuses)

[Travis McGee]

In other breaking news, water is found to be wet.

[avacado]

"Damn. And you know I had to look! Ewwwww......"

Huh? Come on man, you know I have that Mel Gibson look working for me. You're just ate up with the jealous monster. ;-)

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[OldEagle]

What??? No photos???

[purpleraine]

Be careful, Helen Thomas may be lurking.

[Candor7]

Brains, beauty and abilty just are not enough. Integrity of character is the most important trait. http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23001223-952,00.html?from=mostpop

I get a kick out of these studies. They are a lot of hogwash and simply a way to employ researchers who have in this case, failed to address the important measure of character.

Of course its nice if beauty and ability are also present, hotties with character are the best!

[Candor7]

Brains, beauty and abilty just are not enough. Integrity of character is the most important trait.

I mean , look at what happened to Ms. Pima County of Arizona, Kumari Fulbright. She is a law student, national beauty contestant, and is now facing a 5 count felony conviction for kidnapping

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23001223-952,00.html?from=mostpop

I get a kick out of these studies. They are a lot of hogwash and simply a way to employ researchers who have in this case, failed to address the important measure of character.

Of course its nice if beauty and ability are also present, hotties with character are the best!

[ReformedBeckite]

I've suspected this for a long time, I've also suspected that many companies in the USA hurt themselves by trying to save money by having a lot of female personal in management when in the long run they end up with a bunch of dumb studs and dumb blonds. I've also suspect this also might be the reason why many companies are moving their business out of the USA not because of costs but to reestablish a more male management with out being sued up the ying yang.

[Migraine]

I don’t find this true at the place where I work; quite the contrary. Bottom line, I ask, what would be wrong with hiring the average hottie vs hiring the average skag?