Saturday, September 22, 2012

Tattoos May Hinder Getting Hired

By Barry Little


It's sad, but in today's world, the one issue that could stand between you and landing that dream job may be that tiny tattooed Chinese token on your neck. While you visualize tattoos hindering employment, you might picture an applicant that is drenched in tattoos being refused employment. However unfortunate this is, what's even worse is that many employers are stepping it up across the charts and denying jobs to even the applicant that has one tiny, hardly noticeable symbol on his/her body.

Once rejection settles in, a lot of denied applicants typically report feeling discriminated against. One massage therapist, Nikki Kucharek of Macungie, Pennsylvania, claimed feeling similar to a victim of racism following being informed that she'd been denied employment - in spite of making it to the final stage of the interview process which involved taking away her jacket.

Prior to recent years, tattoos were seen as forbidden, and it wasn't common for the average John Doe to have a tattoo. However, in recent years, tattoos have become very popular and inexpensive. Anything you can imagine can be tattooed on your body for a fair price, so this can readily be credited to their increase in acceptance.

However, no matter how popular tattoos have become with society, employers have not done much to ease their views on tattoos in the workplace. Many employers overlook applicants with tattoos for reasoning such as tattoos appearing unnatural and unprofessional. Of course, this can lead many applicants to open discrimination cases against employers, but these cases never survive in court due to equal opportunity laws.

In these scenarios, many discouraged applicants are left only to a final option which is laser tattoo removal. For each and every individual that is willing to go through with tattoo removal for better employment chances, there are many more that refuse it for thinking such as, "The reason for my rejection went beyond my tattoos."

Laser tattoo removal generally involves the removal a person's tattoos through use of a laser that breaks the ink in the skin up into tiny particles via the wavelengths produced by the laser. After the particles have dispersed, the body natural flushes the loose toxins out. A client will usually go for 6-12 sessions to get the area in question treated before the tattoo is officially removed.




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