An official from a plastic surgery hospital in Changsha city, capital of central China's Hunan Province, says they have received more than 200 college students in the past month, most of whom hope their face lifts will help them find work. Wang Li is a college graduate and she explained to the China News Service why she wants the operation. "I have watched many advertisements about the surgery, which makes me believe that it can really improve one's appearance," she said. "I'm going to start job-hunting and I'm not confident with my own face. If I don't do something about it, I'm worried it will prevent me from getting a good job." A senior student, called Liu, gave another reason. "There are some pretty girls in my class. Every year they can easily find part-time jobs, such as sales promoters and banquet receptionists, because of their good appearances. Now, when we are about to graduate, they still can get employed without too much difficulties." But, is it true that a pretty face can increase one's competitive ability in China's tough job market? Not always, employers say. Mr. Wen is the manager of an IT company in Changsha. He says he prefers one's personal ability more than one's appearance. "I'm hiring someone to fetch profits for the company, not a person who wants to be in a beauty pageant," Wen said. was just discussing socioeconomics of plastic surgery in asia with my buddy and decided to do some reading for my own interest. came up with these illuminating articles. its an unfortunate reality that so many women and even men are turning to plastic surgery in china in order to better place themselves for the job market. Plastic surgery is pretty prominent all over asia, however i think that its only a matter of time until China becomes the world capital of facial/body enhancement surgery. With a population of a billion+ i have no doubt that entry into the Chinese workforce will only become more cut throat and men and women will need to take every possible advantage available to improve their chances of being hired and promoted.
Yeah...this is pretty sad....ive heard about this before.... I feel sorry for them....all about looks....crap... I even heard some of em get their legs extended.....now thatssss just sick heres an article about it.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/23/ncosm223.xml
and the amount of fake doctors or unsafe ones will increase too... so many people gonna get their lives ruined
I saw a report in the TV. The journalists visit the hospitals where a lot of women where lying in their bed after their leg extensions. Exactly the same like in the article that Angie posted above. The journalists asked the women why they do that. All the women answered it's easier for them to find a job or they weren't satisfied with their body (to be short). They also interviewed a woman who broke several times her legs to get taller. I mean with several times more than 4 times... That's morbid in my opinion.
was watching a special on discovery afew months ago they were also talking about this same problem and they followed a women around as she went through the entire process and interviewed her about it. her reasons were for a better position at work, not sure how people in china can give raisers just based on looks and not merit....
lol its not like america, there arent alot of ethical guidelines for the job market. in north america if discrimination was the cause of you not getting a job, you could sue the pants off that company.
Mr. Wen is the manager of an IT company in Changsha. He says he prefers one's personal ability more than one's appearance. "I'm hiring someone to fetch profits for the company, not a person who wants to be in a beauty pageant," Wen said. the problem is that sometimes beauty can help attract more ppl so they are also profit inducing...
lol yeah...like when ex my colleagues came over from thailand when i was doing my internship in sydney they were so surprised that there were only GUYS in our sales team... cuz in their division it was very obviously female dominated
