to think that turning up to a job interview with waist-length hair (as a man)

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is tantamount to walking in and saying plainly 'I do not want the job?'

I ask because my brother, reasonably well qualified, reasonably charming though he is, has not cut his hair to get a job, and despite having several interviews, has had no offers. He attends interviews otherwise tidy, suited and booted and with his manly locks tied back in a pony tail.

Moros - of course. I was thinking of books not magazines or newspapers.

It's been a long week!

Job hunting is so competitive

I remember being given instructions once to disregard any CVs that mentioned chess or religion

When you've got 100 to go through, it's all a bit random

Hair would be a strike-out

at chess or religion!

Do people put hairstyle on CVs then MP?

Some people attach piccies

the fules

Bloody hell! I'd never do that. I'd want to give myself a fighting chance.

Maybe he doesn't really want the job

DD's male teacher last year had hair down his waist.

i really like men with long hair so can't comment on this thread but thanks for some nice daydreaming

It really shouldn't make a difference, but the reality is that it often does. A large number of people are very judgemental in that respect and you'd be surprised what they decide about you as a person based on something as silly as long hair (on a man)

So, wrong as it may be, he has to make a choice - chop it off or struggle to find work.

Or he could train as a youth worker or something. Scruffy and long haired is on the job description

oh unclench grandma.its trendy the boys have long hair,girls have short hair.he has other obvious skills as you say well qualified and charming.the recession probably making getting a job hard too

My old manager when I worked in a shop used to have long hair - it came about halfway down his back and was always very clean and tidy, tied up in a ponytail.

He was also very camp (he used to sort of break into a skip when he was walking fast-but-not-fast-enough-to-be-running) and I suspect this helped him pull it off, but still. (Also straight despite the campness)

My cousin has beautiful long hair and has worked his way up from labourer to now being a chartered surveyor in a very large building firm and he is highly respected.

Depends on the job, surely?

I mean if the job was "Lead Guitarist In Metal Band", or "Store Assistant In Rock Vinyl Shop", it would surely be an advantage.

One of our male staff comes to work in a dress...always. He "prefers" it, he says.
Although his hair is short, and he has a beard.

Depressingly, his style is better than mine. I suppose as he has no kids, he has more time to shop.

I would never judge anyone on the length of their hair. I find that those who do, make me feel sad for the sexist stereotyping they are displaying. We would not tell a woman she couldn't have short hair because she was not a man, so why are people so happy to tell a bloke to cut his hair?

yabu
would you say a woman shouldn't have long hair?

that's going to be ds2 in a few years, Miggsie. How are the other staff about it?

Oh, I can't bear long hair on men. Can't stand it. Especially on men over 40.

But if a man turned up to an interview looking well-presented but with a loathsomely long ponytail, and then did an amazing interview, I'd think: "Wow, what a brilliant candidate! But what a crappy hairdo!" Then I'd rofl about his hair behind his back, but offer him the post (not contingent upon the cutting of hair ). But then I am a meeja chick so it's more acceptable to look 'creative' in my world.

A man with long hair lacks gravitas

It's funny how women with short hair don't, then.

I mean really short hair, like Annie Lennox, can look dead sexy on the right woman.

I've grown my hair for jobs

Mainly because moving from London to the Westcountry people started staring in the street....

Shorter hairstyles (i.e. just above shoulders or shorter) flatter all faces better, IMO. I rarely see a woman with really long hair who I think wouldn't look better with a shorter cut to 'frame' her face. Maybe it depends in part on how good the hairdresser is.

It would need to be stunning long hair on a bloke approaching 30, though. Great cascading Titian waves or purple cyberlocks or something.

Averagely English mousy-brown long hair - well, you'd wonder what was so great about it that he needed to keep it at possible expense of losing jobs...