Wk 4 EOC: Physical Attractiveness

As a professional in training I can understand the unspoken factor of physical attractiveness or a clean fresh look being a quality that employers look for when hiring for positions where the person will be directly or indirectly acting as a face that represents the business, whether it’s a hostess at a restaurant, a front desk agent, or the face of a company. Employers want their business to be profitable and to do that you need to attract as many customers as you can. Nice looking, clean and professional workers can help with this. Certain businesses hold this factor at a higher standard than others and while I feel companies should be able to keep to their brands and hire who they feel fits the standards they hold, I also believe a more qualified person should be hired over a less qualified person regardless of what the physical appearance is of the person compared to the other or the brand. Uncontrollable factors should be overlooked, for example scars depending on the location and size the employee could possible cover this feature and if not able to it should be okay because this is something they could not control and discriminating against them for it is wrong. Today at certain places of business they give potential employees the option of being able to cover controllable factors, for instance tattoos, and still get the job. This option being shared in the beginning of the hiring process can help the potential employee decide if they are willing to hide their body art and it helps the employee decide if they really want the person they will have to let the tattoo situation go or just not hire the person. And this works vice versa a company might only want employees with tattoos. Another factor that can be either controllable or uncontrollable is personal hygiene. Someone can have full control over this and not notice there is a problem, so it might need to be brought up to them privately, you should have the option to not hire someone who you feel will cause a problem in the workplace but giving them a chance to change could end up working out for both sides. This factor can also be uncontrollable and these matters need to be handled with care or your company can be tarnished or lose business.