Food service? Construction? I think a lot of folks are failing to include things like trades, services industries, etc.
Sure, most white collar interviews out east might require a suit.
> At my employer, arm or neck tattoos would be noticed, but probably not impact a developers job prospects.
This bums me out. I'm a software manager about to get full sleeve tattoos. You know what doesn't affect my ability to be a good software engineer or manager? My appearance. The fact that someone would say, "This person is great, except I don't like the way they look, so maybe let's not hire them" is truly awful, and I'd hope that at least someone on the hiring committee would push back hard.
Well, it could also be a reflection upon the poor judgment of someone who persisted in getting tattoos in the full knowledge that their (perhaps potential) employer frowned on them.
That's a circular argument. "Getting tattoos makes you a bad candidate because it shows that you're willing to get tattoos". You shouldn't want to work for people that think that way. Great way to weed out bad companies if you ask me.
This is just being shouted to the masses, not to you personally: If a qualified candidates only disqualification are his tattoos, he's still a qualified candidate.
Also, I've had visible tattoos (hands, neck, arms) my entire adult life. I've never had an issue with them involving employment. Excluding the time an employer wanted to put pictures of them on their website and I decline. Two weeks later I was laid off. Either they were going to fire me and wanted to take pictures of me on my way out, or they weren't going to fire me and this made me seem like I wasn't a "team player".
Food service? Construction? I think a lot of folks are failing to include things like trades, services industries, etc.
Sure, most white collar interviews out east might require a suit.
> At my employer, arm or neck tattoos would be noticed, but probably not impact a developers job prospects.
This bums me out. I'm a software manager about to get full sleeve tattoos. You know what doesn't affect my ability to be a good software engineer or manager? My appearance. The fact that someone would say, "This person is great, except I don't like the way they look, so maybe let's not hire them" is truly awful, and I'd hope that at least someone on the hiring committee would push back hard.