{"id":2524,"date":"2013-01-23T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2013-07-01T10:53:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T15:53:33","slug":"tattoos-hurt-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2013\/01\/tattoos-hurt-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Tattoos Hurt You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written about this before, but it keeps coming around \u2013 tattoos hurt your chances of landing a job according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salary.com\/tattoos-hurt-chances-getting-job\/?scm=s-n-011713\" target=\"_blank\">this salary.com article<\/a>.\u00a0 I am a bit old to participate in the tattoo craze so I probably come across as a stodgy old man on this topic.\u00a0 However, the millennials seem to be enthralled with tattoos even in open sight.\u00a0 To give you proof:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A recent study from the Pew Research Center found nearly 40% of people between the ages of 18 and 29 have at least one tattoo\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Think about that stat \u2013 40%!\u00a0 That is more than a fad.\u00a0 But here is where the problem develops:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The biggest takeaways from our survey include a whopping 76% of respondents feel tattoos and piercings hurt an applicant\u2019s chances of being hired during a job interview. And more than one-third \u2013 39% of those surveyed \u2013 believe employees with tattoos and piercings reflect poorly on their employers. Furthermore, 42% feel visible tattoos are always inappropriate at work, with 55% reporting the same thing about body piercings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t care for tattoos and I don\u2019t understand the appeal.\u00a0 If they have this significant drag on hiring success, I would strongly encourage people to avoid them.<\/p>\n<p>Call me old-fashioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written about this before, but it keeps coming around \u2013 tattoos hurt your chances of landing a job according to this salary.com article.\u00a0 I am a bit old to participate in the tattoo craze so I probably come across as a stodgy old man on this topic.\u00a0 However, the millennials seem to be enthralled with tattoos even in open sight.\u00a0 To give you proof: A recent study from the Pew Research Center found nearly 40% of people between the ages of 18 and 29 have at least one tattoo\u2026 Think about that stat \u2013 40%!\u00a0 That is more than a fad.\u00a0 But here is where the problem develops: The&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2013\/01\/tattoos-hurt-you\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[329,1140,1748,1554,1004,56],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-EI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2544,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->