Superficialicious
Thanks to other stupid PE funds jumping on the early recruiting bandwagon, recruiting season has begun.
I’ve started to notice that finance firms love pretty people. When I look around at our associates, they are tall, athletic and incredibly good looking. I love going out with them because they are like my trophies. My girl friends are constantly asking about our next office happy hour. I really should start a dating service.
Even when I interview new recruits, I can’t help but automatically dismiss the dorky, unattractive guys immediately, while with the good looking ones, I try really really hard to like them. Well he didn’t exactly get the question right, but he tried really hard and his answer was really creative! A for effort.
Why is it that I can’t help but want to hire the tall, athletic, incredibly symmetrical looking guy? I know there’s been tons of experiments done on how society treats attractive and unattractive people. People just want to be near, help or be friends with beautiful people. And since buy-side finance is the king of the hill, it can attract cream of the crop beautiful people.
So…basically, I am just contributing to my firm’s success by hiring a guy/girl who will have a higher likelihood of being liked by everyone. Thank you for letting me justify my shallowness.
Boy, do I love casual fridays!
