Are You Kidding? Ugly People 'Have Less Value In The Marketplace'?

We ain’t joking, though sorta wish we were, but Kiplinger’s has just published an article by a career coach talking about why it’s better to hire ugly people. Really.

Is this supposed to make us, the non-supermodels of the world, feel better?

Career coach Marty Nemko writes:

All other things being equal, I’d give the nod to an ugly candidate. It’s not charity: They have less value in the marketplace and can be hired less expensively, even though looks have, for most jobs, little or no bearing on job performance.

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