Will Your Piercing or Tattoo Prevent You From Getting Your Dream Job?

There's a commercial for a popular razor in which a man waiting for a job interview notices that all the pictures in the waiting room of the company's executives were of bald men with shaved heads.

The interviewee, one of many similar looking men in suits waiting to be interviewed, then runs out to buy a razor in order to shave his head. He returns to the room without hair and shares a knowing smile with the boss implying that his appearance will give him an edge.

In reality, it might. In a perfect world, job candidates would be judged solely by past experience, skills, how they interview, and their resume, but that's not always what happens in the real world.

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Source: Fool.com