If you’re interviewing for a new job, what’s most important when it comes to giving yourself a good chance of getting it.
A new study suggests that your appearance and how you’re dressed have a lot more to with it than you even might have thought. Here’s what the study found.
Despite there being HR rules about not judging a job candidate based on how they look, in this survey, more than half, 51-pct, of 1,000 hiring managers and bosses admitted to discriminating against a potential employee because of the way they looked.
The survey says that of those, 43% said they didn’t hire the candidate because of their visible tattoos. Another 40% didn’t hire candidates based on their clothes, while hair color and visible piercings put off some employers as well.
Overall, the study found that 90% of employers said having a professional appearance is an important part of successfully getting through the hiring process at their company.
And with 51 percent in this survey admitting to making hiring decisions based on appearance, you have to wonder if the employers who said they don’t were telling the whole truth.
Whatever the actual percentage, based on this study, how you look can make at least as much a difference in getting a job as the qualifications you have.