Hiring on the Basis of Essay

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For this reason, I will also be speaking to about 15 -- 30 random job seekers who might have something valuable to add on the subject.

I will use the following methods for secondary and primary data collection:

Secondary Research

Print and electronic articles from reliable sources.

Primary Research

1. Fifteen interviews that we will conduct randomly. Though population will be selected randomly, the questions will be fixed and pre-designed for everyone.

The subjects for this research will basically be job seekers. For this reason, we shall employ some job seekers from monster.com forum. This is a huge job site and its forums are visited by job seekers from around the country. We will then ask them if they will be willing to become a part of the study. Those who agree will be sent a questionnaire which they will fill out and return to us. This way we will not be limiting our research to specific type of job seekers but will get a much wider view. Even though we have yet to conduct the research, there are some conclusions that I am already anticipating and they include the following:

1. Looks do play a role in hiring in some organizations

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But hiring on the basis of looks is not as widespread as we might believe and is limited to certain industries

3. Even in those industries, looks are chosen for low-level jobs and not high level jobs

4. White collar jobs are still given on the basis of experience and intelligence alone and looks do not play a role

Possible Obstacles:

During our research, we are anticipating few obstacles which might hinder smooth collection of data. For one we know that some of those who might commit to join the study may never return the questionnaire. Those who do may leave out few questions thus rendering the interview useless. For this reason, while we will only be using 15 participants, we will initially send out questionnaires to around 30 people to minimize….....

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