{"id":453,"date":"2010-07-23T01:40:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T01:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drkimplasticsurgery.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2010-07-23T01:40:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T01:40:57","slug":"does-beauty-give-you-an-edge-on-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drkimplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/does-beauty-give-you-an-edge-on-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Beauty Give You an Edge on a Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2010\/07\/19\/the-beauty-advantage.html\">The Beauty Advantage<\/a>\u201d on Newsweek.com argues that the quest to look good isn\u2019t just \u201ca vain pursuit\u201d and that beauty can affect your career.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s economy looking good is something that can\u2019t be dismissed as frivolous, according to author Jessica Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Economists have long recognized what\u2019s been dubbed the \u2018beauty premium\u2019\u2014the idea that pretty people, whatever their aspirations, tend to do better in, well, almost everything,&#8221; she writes. She then gives the following statistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Handsome men earn, on average, 5 percent more than their less-attractive counterparts<\/li>\n<li>Good-looking women earn 4 percent more, on average, than their less-attractive counterparts<\/li>\n<li>Attractive people get more attention from teachers, bosses, and mentors<\/li>\n<li>Babies stare longer at good-looking faces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Furthermore, economist Daniel Hamermesh says that a good-looking man will make some $250,000 more during his career than his least-attractive counterpart. It&#8217;s no surprise, then, that 13 percent of women say they\u2019d consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drkimplasticsurgery.com\/procedures\/\">cosmetic surgery<\/a> if it made them more competitive at work, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticsurgery.org\/news-and-resources.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Society of Plastic Surgeons<\/a>. Ten percent of men would consider it as well, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/nw-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/pdf\/NW-General-Public-Beauty-Poll.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsweek survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a <em>Newsweek<\/em> survey of 202 corporate hiring managers, 56 percent said that qualified but unattractive candidates are likely to have a harder time getting a job. Furthermore, more than half advised spending as much time and money on \u201cmaking sure they look attractive\u201d as on perfecting a r\u00e9sum\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to rank nine employee attributes in order of importance, managers placed looks above where an applicant went to school, but below experience and confidence.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the article, the online <em>Newsweek<\/em> special report includes online essays, photo galleries, and interactive features on the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek-interactive.com\/feature\/2010\/the-beauty-advantage.html\">beauty advantage<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article titled \u201cThe Beauty Advantage\u201d on Newsweek.com argues that the quest to look good isn\u2019t just \u201ca vain pursuit\u201d and that beauty can affect your career. In today\u2019s economy looking good is something that can\u2019t be dismissed as frivolous, according to author Jessica Bennett. &#8220;Economists have long recognized what\u2019s been dubbed the \u2018beauty premium\u2019\u2014the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drkimplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/does-beauty-give-you-an-edge-on-a-job\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does Beauty Give You an Edge on a Job?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,33],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-plastic-surgery","tag-plastic-surgery-for-men"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Does Beauty Give You an Edge on a Job? - SGK Plastic Surgery<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drkimplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/does-beauty-give-you-an-edge-on-a-job\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Does Beauty Give You an Edge on a Job? - SGK Plastic Surgery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An article titled \u201cThe Beauty Advantage\u201d on Newsweek.com argues that the quest to look good isn\u2019t just \u201ca vain pursuit\u201d and that beauty can affect your career. 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