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 native land a chore interview, attractive women may be at a disadvantage, a new study from Israel suggests. Resumes that included photos of considerable men were twice as likely to generate requests for an interview, the mug up found wheretobuyrx. But resumes from women that included photos were up to 30 percent less fitting to get a response, whether or not the women were attractive.

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

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 control on the association between beauty and the labor market. The current study appears online on the Social Science Research Network.

In Israel, toil hunters have the option of including a headshot with their resumes, whereas that is conventional in many European countries but taboo in the United States, Ruffle said. That made Israel the notional testing ground for his research, he said.

To arbitrate whether a job candidate's appearance affects the likelihood of landing an interview, Ruffle and a colleague mailed 5,312 in effect identical resumes, in pairs, in response to 2,656 advertised job openings in 10 unconventional fields. One resume included a photo of an attractive man or bird or a plain man or woman; the other had no photo. Almost 400 employers (14,5 percent) responded.