Opinion of Recruiters About the Role of Physical Attractiveness in the Process of Selection: Qualitative study

Abstract

Attractive people often take an advantage in their life and offer preference over those who are unattractive. These problems may be ethical, cultural or social, but they may also Important impacts on the recruiting process and maybe key to problems discrimination. The present study describing the phenomena of physical attractiveness ensures effects the recruitment process with some of the basic condition outline in the implicit personality theory. The sample size was constituted 20 and saturated on the 10 of participants (6 males and 4 female) phenomenology: Non - probability Purposive sampling technique was used. Those participants were involved as the leading recruiter such as director, cos’, selection board member and principal of institutes as these were from hospitals, education institutes, Ngos and local government and ruler department in order to ensure maximum variation sampling technique as them belong to different heads of institutes. The data was collected through in depth interview by using semi-structure open ended questionnaire. These phases were: familiarization with data, generating initial codes, searching for themes among codes, reviewing themes, defining and naming themes and producing the final report were analyzed. Five themes were emerged as a results of the study, each themes were individually discussed to comprehend over its meaningful features, Performa for hiring candidate’s, Gender preferences according to the job status, Communication and Confidence level, Knowledge about the Desired Field and Qualification and Experiences. It was concluded from the respondents interview that physical attractiveness has important impact for the selection of employ whether government organization or non-government organization.