How much do your looks affect corporate success?

[Anonymous]

Can you get ahead in corporate if you are not good looking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you get ahead in corporate if you are not good looking?

I don’t think that being very good looking is helpful at all. In fact, it’s a huge issue at work. Being a well maintained, average looking person is probably best for career advancement.

[Anonymous]

We don’t have a single overweight, unattractive person in leadership at the large, publicly-traded company where I work. Everyone is fit and average to above average in looks, but no one is incredibly good looking.

Being unattractive may hurt, as may being too attractive.

[Anonymous]

Being overweight is a negative. Being too flashy also a negative

[Anonymous]

The key is to be well groomed in a way that’s…inoffensive. Look at Fortune 500 female execs. All shapes and sizes, frankly, and different degrees of natural beauty..but they have tidy, inoffensive haircuts and white teeth.

[Anonymous]

I think it helps more than it hurts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being overweight is a negative. Being too flashy also a negative

Yeah, it seems best to look healthy and groomed but in a natural way.

[Anonymous]

Not since pre 9/11.

[Anonymous]

At my last job, everyone stood at standing desks all day eating salads.

[Anonymous]

Your teeth matter a lot, and it sucks for people like me with a crossbite. I have done orthodontic treatment but because my roots are short, we had to stop before it was fixed. My only other option is a full mouth of veneers which aren't permanent. It would cost 25k, and I would need to have it done every ten or so years. I may do it abroad, where my husband is originally from. So to answer your question, looks do matter. I watched someone move up fast instead of another guy with bad teeth. In US culture, you're expected to smile a lot with your teeth and you're judged by your teeth, unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

You don’t have to look good, but looking very ugly will hurt your chances badly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you get ahead in corporate if you are not good looking?

No biggie if you’re a man. Harder if you’re a woman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your teeth matter a lot, and it sucks for people like me with a crossbite. I have done orthodontic treatment but because my roots are short, we had to stop before it was fixed. My only other option is a full mouth of veneers which aren't permanent. It would cost 25k, and I would need to have it done every ten or so years. I may do it abroad, where my husband is originally from. So to answer your question, looks do matter. I watched someone move up fast instead of another guy with bad teeth. In US culture, you're expected to smile a lot with your teeth and you're judged by your teeth, unfortunately.

Instead of getting them fixed abroad maybe you could just move abroad.

[Anonymous]

I work for a Fortune 500 company. All the female executives look like sorority sisters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work for a Fortune 500 company. All the female executives look like sorority sisters.

Same here