Judging By The Cover By Bonny Gainley Summary

Today’s job seeker has tough competition. In the textbook reading “Judging by the Cover” by Bonny Gainley, she argues that job seekers ought to be careful when they make personal choices that initially will affect their chances of entering the workplace. People have a need to be accepted by others just the way they are, but many of us were taught as adolescence that we should not judge a book by its cover, yet people judge others solely on their personal appearances. That goes for businesses as well, “[t]he bottom line is that businesses exist to make money. Whether it seems fair or not, generally employers do care about the personal appearances of the people they hire because those people represent the business to its customers” (5). Maybe

Parents need to share some of the blame when it comes to the issue of young adults making damaging personal choices, such as tattoos, piercing, and shocking hair styles that can have a negative impact on their future, and ability to land a job. Parents need to ensure that they are not enabling their children to make wrong personal choices by them giving the example that it is acceptable to look and act a certain way, nor send the wrong message. Parents of young adult’s need exhibit moral behavior, as well exhibit respectable personal choices themselves. In today’s generation, it is understandable that we live in a society where anything goes, nevertheless the parents cannot ignore or condone damaging personal appearance behavior their young adult children choose to

Gainley demonstrates of people who “make assumption about people based on their appearance every day, an often we assume exactly what they want us to assume” (4). In a recent personal event, a classmate and personal friend of mine recently went through the complete hiring process with a local police department, but was disqualified for visible tattoos on the neck area which could not be covered up. It was later addressed that public opinion would view a police officer as not being professional. Gainley indicates that “the message may be my uniform says I am a police officer or I like the latest fashions or I am a gang member” (3). Consequently, this could not be further than the truth as we all have the right to establish our own choices in life, but on that same note, willing to live with our