Bikini hiring contest for nuclear plant interns gets toxic reaction | Sunday Observer

Bikini hiring contest for nuclear plant interns gets toxic reaction

2 July, 2017
CEZ’s Temelin nuclear power plant came under fire for using a swimsuit contest as a way to hire interns.
CEZ’s Temelin nuclear power plant came under fire for using a swimsuit contest as a way to hire interns.

It’s normal to expect a certain level of scrutiny when a company wants to hire an intern. That scrutiny is not usually based on swimwear.

A Czech nuclear power station seemed to focus more on looks than qualifications when they used a swimsuit contest to hire interns.

CEZ’s Temelín station posted photos of 10 high school graduates posing in bikinis and hard hats on its Facebook page last week. According to the post, the woman with the greatest number of likes was supposed to be crowned “Miss Energy 2017” and score a two-week internship with the company.

“We think photographs are very tasteful,” the company wrote in a comment on the post. “The combination of beauty and the industrial environment gives an interesting result.”

Shockingly, people were not thrilled. CNN.com 

 

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