Does attractiveness have an increasing probability on hiring decision? Case study on Marketing position in Financial Business

Abstract

This research provides new evidence the impact between beauty and hiring decision in the labor market. Specifically, study if people with less attractive faces are less likely to be chosen after submitting a resume. The empirical strategy is based on an experimental approach by making an application that has attractive and unattractive photos for human resource workers in financial business in Bangkok, Thailand. For rating of the application that wants to choose from highest to lowest from all applications. From the results, it is found that applications with attractive images will be selected higher than applications with unattractive photos. But the factors that have been chosen the most is factor of language ability.