10 Careers Where Being Pretty Is Part Of The Job Description
A new report on unspoken job requirements ranked the careers where your face does the hiring, and the top five are a who's who of girls who got the job the second they walked in.
Every job posting has the official requirements, the "two years of experience" and "proficient in Excel" part. Then there's the list nobody prints. You know the one. It's the reason you did the full Elle Woods blowout before your interview and told yourself it was about confidence. It was, partly. But you also knew, the way we all know, that looking the part gets you in the door, and the research agrees with you. Economists call it the "beauty premium," the pay bump that attractive people tend to collect across all kinds of industries, somewhere in the range of 4–10% more than their less polished coworkers.