I have an interview with the director of the company on Tuesday morning, yay!!!!! The recruitment consultant I am dealing with rang me back again to ask if I would take my piercing out if came to it to get the job (I have a little diamonte above my lip on the left) and I said NO!! I said it's part of me & it comes with me (I love my piercing!!). He said good on you, I have told him about it and I do not think it would be an issue but I just wanted to know where you stood in case after the interview he came back to me and said I would want her to remove it!! If they asked me to remove it I would not want to work for them anyway, they would be to much behind the times for me, this is 2006!!!!
Chookie - Congratulations...i'll have my fingers crossed for you on Tuesday. Good on you for taking a stand with your piercing. A few years ago when i moved to Melbourne, i started going for job interviews etc, mainly in real estate as that is my families business and i've worked in the office on and off for years, plus i have my agents rep. certificate. Anyway i kept applying for property manager positions, but they kept telling me that i didn't have enough experience. Anyways...i was telling my mum and her therory was that they didn't give me the job because of my nose stud, which was a tiny diamonte that you could hardly notice. I told her that was crap and just coz she didn't like it doesn't mean that everyone else was going to judge me too. I told her to get with the times etc. After that everytime i went for an interview (but this stage i'd dummed myslef down for receptionist) i asked the people if they had any objections to my nose stud, and 100% of the time they said 'no...that's fine, in fact we hadn't even noticed it until you mentioned it'. So there you go. Most people don't care, and seriously, it's not like we've turned punk or anything with 20 peircings over our faces. You go girl....
PS. I did get the receptionist job and ended up practically running the whole office including property management and a little bit of sales....that showed them what i was made of.....:nana:
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