If you’re attractive, it’s just as valuable as a college degree for your career prospects, according to a new study. The study, from Leuphana University of Luneburg, Germany, used a survey ranking the looks of 3,000 people from 1 to 11 in terms of attractiveness. The study found that the more attractive people were ahead of the rest in terms of pay increases and promotions…. “The results show that just one point above average on the attractiveness scale and the chance of getting employed rises by three percent,” study head Professor Christian Pfeifer wrote in the Applied Economics Letters journal.
Today’s communique from the Ministry of the Blindingly Obvious brings us the news that attractive people enjoy better career prospects. If you read the communique, you’ll also learn that water is wet, the Sun rises in the East, and Bill O’Reilly has a thing for loofahs.
I’m not sure how or why this would qualify as being newsworthy, but hiring managers since the dawn of time have hire people based on the “Would I schtup her?” criteria. OK, maybe that’s not the only criteria, but attractiveness has always been a part of the equation, as it is in most every aspect of life. It may not be right or decent…or even legal in some instances, but it’s reality. People hire people they want to boink. I can’t speak for the distaff portion of the population, but I can vouch for the undeniable fact that men are pigs. We tend to think with the wrong head where members of the opposite sex are concerned…whether we care to admit it or not. We may be married or in a committed relationship. We may honestly have no desire to cheat on our spouse or significant other. That said, if a man tells you that if he doesn’t, even fleetingly, wonder what a woman would look like naked, he’s lying. If a man is conducting a job interview with a woman, you can bet that “Would I schtup her?” is part of the hiring criteria, no matter how thoroughly decent, mature, and professional that man is.
Yeah, I know; I don’t like it, either, but human beings are what we are. If you’re hot, we like you more than if you’re not. It’s a biological imperative, so if you’ve got it, use it to your advantage. If you’re lucky, perhaps you’ll also be able to convince those in positions of power that you’re actually capable and competent.
