Persuasive Jobs Research Paper

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Are people with tattoos less likely to be employed? According to the Harris Interactive poll, Twenty-seven percent of the respondents without tattoos said folks with tattoos are less intelligent, and half said they are more rebellious. In a 2011, CareerBuilder poll (the most recent one on the topic), thirty-one percent of nearly 3,000 hiring managers said they would be less likely to promote someone with a visible tattoo, and thirty-seven percent said the same for piercings (McMullen). To think that someone would not even consider hiring you because you have tattoos is quite a bias because tattoos are now more acceptable but some still refuse to accept the new 21st-century trend . In fact, a 2012 Harris Interactive poll shows that one in five U.S. …show more content…

A thought with which I agree with, for example, Bruce Potts, a very successful professor at the University of New Mexico, has a full tribal tattoo on his face yet is a very great professor which shows that success is all about what is in your brain but not under your sleeves. Discrimination in the workforce does not only apply to employees that are tatted but also to employees of color. It is all beneath the sleeves. According to Mike Cassidy from The Fiscal Times, black unemployment is about 5 percentage points higher than white unemployment (Cassidy). Colored children are also less likely to succeed because they tend to have the worse schools in their communities and less funding towards their school programs, which leads to discouragement in young children, which leads to them dropping out, subsequently leading to unemployment. The major unemployment of colored people is not because Colored people are indolent but rather the chances of them succeeding stolen from at a very young age. When one colored person achieve their education despite their disadvantages and manages to

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