October 11, 2011

Career-limiting moves

In the October 2011 edition of the CA Magazine, there was a summary of some career limiting moves that were noted based on a survey by US recuiter CareerBuilder.

Nearly 3,000 hiring managers were asked to name the personal attributes that would make an employee less appealing for a promotion.  Here are their top responses:

Piercings  - 37%
Bad breath - 34%
Visible tattoo - 31%
Wrinkled clothes -  31%
Messy hair -  29%
Dresses too casually - 28%
Too much perfume or cologne -  26%
Too much makeup  -  22%
Messy office or cubicle - 19%   
Chewed fingernails  -  10%
Too suntanned  -  4%

What would be the attribute that would get you to think twice about promoting someone?             

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