To Get An Interview For A Woman To Be A Better Resume Without A Photo

To Get An Interview For A Woman To Be A Better Resume Without A Photo.
While good-looking men note it easier to sod a ass interview, attractive women may be at a disadvantage, a new study from Israel suggests. Resumes that included photos of fair men were twice as likely to generate requests for an interview, the think over found. But resumes from women that included photos were up to 30 percent less like as not to get a response, whether or not the women were attractive.

That good-looking women were passed over for interviews "was surprising," said swatting leader Bradley Ruffle, an economics researcher and lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The determination contradicts a considerable body of research that shows that good-looking people are typically viewed as smarter, kinder and more first-rate than those who are less attractive.

But Daniel S Hamermesh, professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin, "wasn't perfectly surprised," noting that other studies, including one of his own, have found pulchritude a liability in the workplace. "I call this the 'Bimbo Effect,'" said Hamermesh, considered an arbiter on the association between beauty and the labor market. The current study appears online on the Social Science Research Network.

In Israel, area hunters have the option of including a headshot with their resumes, whereas that is usual in many European countries but taboo in the United States. That made Israel the idyllic testing ground for his research.

To determine whether a job candidate's appearance affects the probability of landing an interview, Ruffle and a colleague mailed 5,312 virtually identical resumes, in pairs, in return to 2,656 advertised job openings in 10 different fields. One take up again included a photo of an attractive man or woman or a plain man or woman; the other had no photo. Almost 400 employers (14,5 percent) responded.