Where does a tattoo interfere with a job placement?
Much depends on the location of the tattoo. Working with children is unlikely to work if you have spectacularly decorated visible parts of the body. Job applicants with tattoos on the face or hands are likely to be rejected. In many areas there is a taboo on images with a pronounced prison connotation (thieves' stars, rings). Applicants for positions in the security forces will be rejected if there is a noticeable pattern on the neck or face.
Personnel officers have the most stringent requirements for:
- Models - tattoos "cheapen" expensive clothes and are inappropriate on the catwalk, only famous top models can afford small tattoos;
- Sellers in official brand offices, boutiques with a strict dress code;
- Civil servants - employees of government agencies must comply with the business style, decorating the body with a tattoo that cannot be concealed is unacceptable;
- Bank clerks and office managers - employees should comply with the company's standards;
- Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the prosecutor's office, the police - any visible tattoos are prohibited.
Beards and tattoos are welcome.
- It is unlikely that there will be a job vacancy with the requirement "no tattoos", as HeadHunter representatives told us. "It can be considered discrimination, limitation or preference based on appearance - when business qualities are not directly connected with visual appearance. And businesses try to avoid such stories.
In addition, many employers today are specifically working on the brand of their companies, trying to make it attractive to a young audience, and a strict ban on tattoos or piercings in this concept does not fit in at all. Therefore, a person with a tattoo may well get a job even in a very "conservative" place - a bank, a school, a civil service. True, you must be prepared for the dress code and the need to hide the drawings under clothing.
Moreover, more and more often it is possible to meet vacancies with phrases: "loyal attitude to tattoo and piercing," "tattoos are welcome," "creativity - tattoos, dreadlocks, piercing, beard - is welcomed.
When analyzing the company's job database over the past year, managers found only 33 ads from employers across Russia that included the phrase "without tattoos" - offers for waiters, receptionists, hostesses in status hotels, restaurants, high-end educational and medical centers, where the neat and strict appearance of employees is given special attention.
When are tattoos out of the way?
If you are planning to work in a technical support service, appearance is not important, and a tattoo will not be a barrier to getting a position.
No one will know about the presence of a tattoo, if it is competently concealed under clothing or hair. Drawings behind the ear, on the back of the neck, on the hips, on the back is easy to veil. Small images on the shoulder in the style of graphics are sometimes difficult to notice, only the owner himself can know about them.
There are a number of professions for which tattoos are not prohibited. Those who have a tattoo in a visible place and get a job as a bartender in a youth bar have no problems. There are no restrictions on body adornment in design, music, or hairdressing. At work in the sports club to tattoos are treated loyally.
Quality original images are welcomed in informal models.
The presence of inscriptions and drawings does not affect the device for a job as a graphic designer, IT-specialist, broker, artist, pastry chef or chef.
Tattoos on the body have long since come as no surprise to anyone. From a fashion trend, they have become commonplace. However, choosing a place for a drawing, many still keep in mind that at the time of hiring it is better to hide it with clothes. Is it true that employers can refuse you just because of the tattoo, or modern realities have changed the views of human resources on the appearance of their future employees? Let's find out from the experts.
Why do employers care about tattoos?
Often employers worry about tattoos at work, where much of the process involves interaction with the customer. Even if the employer has nothing against tattoos, tattoos can cause a bad reaction from customers, on whom the company's profits depend. And tattoos that promote racism or hate speech can cause a company to lose its reputation.
Because of stereotypes, an employee with tattoos may be considered unprofessional. To look more professional at a job interview, you should hide your tattoos, wear light makeup, and wear stricter clothing. Do not hide the fact that you have tattoos, if you are asked about it. Show your professionalism and alternative thinking, then success is guaranteed.
If you're going to work with clients, don't tattoo in a prominent place.
- Three to five years ago I would have given an unequivocal answer: no. But now I'm already admitting: it all depends on the vacancy. IT, advertising, call center - quite possible. I think that in the next few years, employers will become even more loyal, but to work with clients will still try to take specialists without provocative elements of appearance. The main thing is that drawings should not be explicit, aggressive and not disgusting - this already speaks of certain personality traits.
- If the tattoos are not conspicuous, the applicant will not have any problems with the employment. In cases where the tattoo is visible, it is better to cover it with clothing, especially if you settle for a position where you have to work with clients. For "sleeves" sell special stockings, and the tattoo on the neck can be taped with a plaster.
A tattoo can help with career advancement.
It is unlikely to be related to a medical or teaching practice. Although... there are exceptions everywhere.
Today's young people are not immediately determined with the vector of their careers. Even yesterday's medical student today can work in a barber shop, where a battered sleeve will be very helpful. A creative employee of an advertising agency will cause skepticism with the usual office look. But a tattoo on the whole back, an unusual hairstyle and a bright clothing style is just the thing.
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There are certain categories of companies and businesses where an unusual image is only welcome. So do not get too upset if you were denied a job today. It is quite possible that tomorrow you will find your place in the sun.
Tattoos have no place at work with children
- We have about 40 animators - guys from 18 to 25 years old. And many of them wear tattoos. We take animators with tattoos, but they go out to visitors in closed clothing, because Know-Nothing or other cartoon characters would look inorganic in such surroundings. I also had the experience of working in an amusement park "Sochi Park". They did the same thing there: they covered the tattoos with clothing, flesh-colored patches or foundation when they went into position.
Director of the branch of the Chempionika children's soccer school in Novo-Peredelkino
- Our company organizes children's soccer classes. Particular attention is paid to children ages 3-5. At this age, it's important for a child to see an image of a man who will be a protection, and a support, and a reliable friend. We have nothing against tattoos, as long as they can be hidden under clothing.
Is it legal to discriminate against someone because of a tattoo?
We all know that employers cannot discriminate against you because of gender, age, race, nationality, religion. But they still discriminate against people with tattoos. And they have a right to do so because there's no law against not hiring people with visible tattoos or dyed hair. They may think your appearance would be intimidating or offensive to customers, an employer may cite corporate rules against visible tattoos.
WHAT KIND OF TATTOOS DON'T GET INTO THE MILITARY?
There is no exact definition in the military medical examination of what kind of tattoos are not allowed into the army. However, the practice of lawyers of the Recruitment Support Service shows that they do not accept those with tattoos on the face, including on the eyeball, as well as with images with specific content: occult, obscene or racist slogans and symbols.
There is also no definitive answer to the question of what percentage of tattoos are not accepted into the army. There is a popular version among conscripts that tattooing 70-90% of the body exempts from the draft, but in fact the specific figures are not defined anywhere, so the doctor will not measure the area of the drawings.
If we rely on practical experience, they will not take to the army for tattoos, which completely cover the body, but sometimes for exemption from the draft is enough and one small tattoo. For example, a drawing of intimate content on the face.
EXPERT OPINION
Conscripts who want to get a military ID because of their health, or do not know if it is possible not to serve with their disease, or do not understand how to be exempted from the draft due to their diagnosis. Read the real stories of conscripts who received a military ID in the "Practice" section.
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Just got a haircut the other day, the hairdresser - a nice very friendly girl 20+ all in front of her, cuts well, you can chat easy, cut quickly, good...
But the whole arm tattoo (the hand is almost like covered in paint.
Just like in this muzzle:
Len, why do you need THIS - the answers are on the level of the author, which I quote. And such an adequate seemed at first I thought - if she had such brains and goodwill of a 40 year old woman and not of a 20 year old woman - she would be valueless, but then on coming out of the hairdresser's, I thought I was mistaken in giving her so many likes in my mind. And here Comrade has confirmed my thoughts, thanks to him!
Why I don't hire people with tattoos
My job involves adequate and logical thinking. I am a mathematician, after all. Adequacy should be in everything: in words, in actions, in behavior. There shouldn't be any garbage in your head.
At a job interview I always ask a question:
- Why did you get a tattoo?
The most common answer is, "Just because, for myself. After that, the candidate can leave right away, because I don't ask "For whom?" I ask, "Why?"
But my goal is not to mock the person, but to really understand the goals and motives. As an intelligent person, I always allow myself to be wrong. So I assume that the tattooed candidate will be able to spew the kind of killer argument that will turn my views upside down.
In the end, the conversation almost always comes down to the fact that there is some deep meaning in the picture drawn on the skin. Almost all tattooed people sincerely believe that they have put deep meaning into the tattoo!
Deep meaning in a tattoo - nonsense
And here's where the fun part begins. Always, 100% of the time, when a person decides to discover the "deep meaning" of their tattoo, it turns out that all of this meaning is on par with quotes from VKontakte or Instagram.
There are millions of them:
Great is a man in his intentions, but weak in their realization (Remarque)
Live by keeping the peace. Spring will come and the flowers will bloom (Chinese proverb)
And all in that vein. That is, the usual quotes, proverbs and aphorisms. In any bookstore there is a collection, in which there are thousands of them.
But one sincerely (!) believes that a certain aphorism has such amazing depth that it is worthy of being applied to one's skin.
Every time I ask the question, "Tell me about the deeper meaning of your tattoo," I get a little worried, because, in theory, the person may now reveal to me some secret of the universe. Something that I didn't know, that I couldn't even imagine. Something that would turn my world upside down. That would change me. A really deep meaning! And he's back at me:
- He who sails nowhere never has a fair wind!
After that I always want to ask: "Dear man, why don't you call a doctor?
NEVER take a serious job with a tattooed person.
There are many jobs for them: McDonalds, bars, hypermarkets... These places are for their level of thinking. For their psyche. In fact, that's why there are so many employees with tattoos at McDonald's, not because that's the company's policy, but because they go there on their own. They're magnetically drawn to it. Because that's really their level.
These are the people who consider an ordinary aphorism as the greatest saying with the deepest meaning. Or the word "eternity." Or some Indian pattern that symbolizes a connection with nature. Or some phrase in French or Chinese. In general, I see.
I'll add five cents for myself, which I told Lenka, while she was raking my "curls" with a brush for a few minutes before I had to pay.
As a comrade wrote here the other day, almost everyone has a close friend of the FSB (and I am no exception).
When he went to Vyshku in his time there were a few of them (from the Navy received a referral). One had a ship's tattoo (by which you can tell where he served, and generally a special feature (+ cockroaches in the brain, as quoted by the author). First there was a medical commission and he was immediately rejected because of the tattoo, he was not even allowed to take the exams.
It was customary in the SS to have a characteristic tattoo under the arm.
That's what happened as a result. When an SS soldier was suddenly taken prisoner - they were fierce enemies and almost never surrendered. For example, in the SS Panzer Division "Dead Head" near Demiansk the losses of the division personnel were 80%. But still it was very rare, but it happened that they were captured...if they were wounded or shell-shocked... The first thing they were told was to take off their uniforms. Put your hand up and see that distinctive tattoo under your arm. Get up, come with me. They went to the nearest bush or ravine, and there they went straight to the action, they almost never went to captivity.
It's also convenient to identify corpses by their tattoos.
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A Pity, nice girl Lenka, she cuts hair properly and is pleasant, but I doubt I will go there again, she will poke me in the eye with something else... (I don't know, those inadequates).
METHOD OF ESTIMATING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE OF A PATIENT WITH TATTOOS, THEIR SIGNIFICANCE
Specialists in the field of psychiatry have developed a special method for assessing the psychological state of a person whose body is decorated with tattoos. Three main characteristics are taken into account:
- representational - the shape, size, location and number of images are evaluated;
- group - it is taken into account what group the picture belongs to (military, professional, cult, ethnic, etc.);
- semantic - what exactly does the tattoo mean, what did they want to say with it (there are professional, sentimental, aggressive-threatening and others).
Studies have shown that for people with mental disabilities, the meaning of tattoos is distributed as follows.
- Aggressively threatening - 44.6%. These are depictions of predatory animals, weapons, aggressive people or scenes.
- Demonstration-protesting - 14.4%. This category depicts ships, birds, symbols of freedom, cryptograms as symbols.
- Other groups - 41%.
As a rule, people with a mentally unstable condition have meaningful tattoos that are large in size and occupy a significant part of the body.
Beat it, but don't get hammered.
Reactions to tattoos today are mixed. There are real stories of talented guys being denied employment simply because the artwork on their bodies could not be concealed by clothing. In fact, having visible body art is the downfall of an office career. But that's not certain. After all, the ability to work, solid experience and prestigious education should not be overridden by an element of body decoration.
It is important to observe the boundaries of what is allowed. However, as always. It is clear that the dolphin on the coccyx is not as noticeable as the ornaments on the face. Therefore, even with 100% confidence in your abilities and skills you should not test the loyalty of the potential employer. Because even the most uncomplicated pattern can put an end to a dizzying career.
Do you want a tattoo? Hit it, but don't get hammered. Do it in such a way that the tattoo can be covered up if necessary. It's the only way to advance your career and not change your preference.
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TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT.
I do not recommend that young men who contact the Conscription Assistance Service use tattooing to get out of the military. An ordinary tattoo, if it is not associated with extremism, violence and other tendencies, will not exempt from the draft. The only way to be exempt from the army is for a psychiatrist to certify that the tattoo is indicative of a mental disorder.
Attempting to simulate the presence of such deviations usually ends in failure. In addition to the usual examination and conversation with a psychiatrist, conscripts perform special tests designed so that young people cannot cheat the doctor. After that, the young man receives a referral to a psychoneurological dispensary for an in-depth examination.
It is also important to remember: an attempt to evade conscription into the army by tattoos, or rather psychiatry, can lead to compulsory registration at the PND. Instead, I recommend that you get a military ID for a real disease. More than 90% of conscripts have non-conscription diagnoses. It is possible to identify the disease with a full examination or with the help of a specialist who will study medical documents and complaints to help decide on a specific referral for examination.
Tattoos are grounds for dismissal
In a world where everything is allowed and everything is acceptable, a tattoo is still something shameful and unsightly. At least for those who don't have one. Many women will look with indignation at a teacher at school or a kindergarten teacher who has ink drawings peeking out from under his sleeve.
There is no such article in the law, according to which the employer has the right to fire an employee. But the practice exists. It is clear that no one will tell the truth. The boss is likely to go the roundabout way without telling the real reason for firing.
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So with a prestigious education and serious plans, you should think carefully about where and what kind of tattoo to get. Unfortunately, there is a good chance that an original pattern or fancy ornament on your shoulder could be the reason for a job rejection.
Why should you decide for yourself whether or not to show you piercings and tattoos during an interview?
Although the above points give you clues as to when it's best to hide your body jewelry. However, if you remove or conceal your piercings and tattoos when you meet with a potential employer, it is ultimately your decision.
What speaks against concealment is that piercings and tattoos are likely to get noticed sooner or later anyway. Unless you have a desire to always take your piercings out in your daily life, the job in question may not be right for you anyway.
