Better be beautiful than ugly!
Most people assume being good-looking gives you a career boost. But just how much does it help?
A lot. Good-looking people charm interviewers, get hired faster, are more likely to make more sales and get more raises.
From WSJ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203687504576655331418204842.html
In this article the professor says that it doesn't pay to invest in looks, because we are what we are. My experience is different, i think both on the professional and on the personal sides it pays to lose weight, get in shape and dressed up.
Do what you can, the looks makes a big difference. One of the reasons is that you become more confident.
Even if you are dumb, because of the halo effect, very attractive people are perceived to be more intelligent. If we find someone very good in one attribute we tend to also think that person is good in other things.
R.B. Cialdini says in Influence, 1984
In one study, good grooming of applicants in a
simulated employment interview accounted for more favourable hiring decisions
than did job qualifications -this, even though the interviewers claimed that appearance
played a small role in their choices.(Mack &Rainey, 1990)
Because we like attractive
people and because we tend to comply with those we like, it makes sense that
sales training programs include grooming hints, that fashionable clothiers
select their floor stuffs from among the good looking candidates, and that con
men are handsome and con women are pretty.
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