Study may put new face on hiring process

Imagine this conversation in a corporation’s boardroom:

CEO: “What do we do? Smith and Jones are equally qualified to be our new general manager. Which one do we hire?”

HR DIRECTOR: “I’d hire Jones if I were you. He’s a fathead.”

CEO: “Wait … what?”

That may sound a bit loopy – but not to a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Keith Welker believes he has evidence to indicate that facial structure correlates to greater success among chief executives.

Welker, a post-doctoral researcher in CU’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience,…