By Alyssa Aalmo
Many factors are important when you’re applying for a job. Your résumé, letters of recommendation, samples of work from past communication projects—and tattoos. Yes, tattoos are a form of “personal branding,” but as up-and-coming communication professionals, we also need to be aware of how we “brand” ourselves, literally and figuratively.
According to a 2010 Pew Research Center Study titled Millennials: A Portrait of Generation Next, 38 percent of Millennials (ages 18–29) have at least one tattoo. What Millennials fail to remember, however, is that although they have the right to express their personal identity, the people hiring them are often from a different generation, for whom tattoos may not be as socially acceptable in the workplace. Read the rest of this entry »
