"Hiring should be about the ability to do a good job, and not about appearance."
Many factors are important when you're applying for a job. Your résumé, letters of recommendation, samples of work from past projects—and tattoos. Yes, tattoos are a form of "personal branding," but as up-and-coming communication professionals, we also need to be aware of how we "brand" ourselves, literally and figuratively
According to a 2010 Pew Research Center study titled Millennials: A Portrait of Generation Next, 38 percent of millennials (ages 18-29) have at least one tattoo. What millennials fail to remember, however, is that although they have the right to express their personal identity, the people hiring them are often from a different generation, and they might feel tattoos are socially unacceptable in the workplace.
In an interview with Mark Brenner, senior vice president of external affairs for Apollo Group, the conversation turned to hiring millennials and how tattoos factor into the process. "Depending on if they are visible or offensive in nature, [tattoos] have an impact on professionalism," he says. Brenner explains that if you are a representative of a company, distracting tattoos can make that company seem less professional.
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