do pretty people get better jobs

According to recent studies, when it comes to getting your dream job, looks do matter. Statistics show that if you are good looking you probably have an advantage over the average looking person. When someone is viewed as attractive, they are usually assumed to have a number of positive social traits and are looked at as smarter. This may or may not be true. Anyone would agree that being good-looking really does have its advantages, studies show attractive students get more attention and higher evaluations from their teachers, good-looking patients get more personalized care from their doctors, and handsome criminals receive lighter sentences than less attractive convicts, but recent debates have asked, do good-looking people get better jobs than an average looking person? According to Aristotele “Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference”

In my opinion, better-looking people do get better jobs. I do not necessarily agree with this however I think that people like to deal with pretty people. In the service industry especially, managers look for young beautiful people to represent their company. When searching for information on this topic I found many different debates, experiments and polls containing information on the question. At businessinsider.com I came across a couple of studies that both came to the conclusion that good-looking people are more likely to get call backs when applying for jobs. One group of researchers sent out nearly 10,000 resumes. All of them were the same except the picture, name, address, and phone number. “The average callback rate was 30% across all of the CVs sent out. For attractive women, it was 54%, and for attractive men, 47%. Unattractive women had by far the wor...

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... individuals however many managers have said that attractive people are more confident and carry themselves better. These managers are not necessarily, they say, hiring them because they are good looking but because they are confident during interviews which is much more appealing to the people in charge of hiring.

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Florencia , L. B., Martín A., R., & Sergio , U. (2012). The labor market return to an attractive face: Evidence from a field experiment. Manuscript submitted for publication, University of Maryland,, .

Kate , L. (2005, July 11). Do pretty people earn more? . Carrer Builder . Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/Careers/07/08/looks/