According to a LinkedIn blog post by a male job recruiter named Bruce Hurwitz, women should not wear their engagement rings when going to an interview because it sends off a message saying she's "high maintenance."
Hurwitz wrote on his post:
"A colleague interviewed a woman. I was not present during the interview. When they left the conference room the woman asked my colleague, "You know, I have had a number of interviews and no offers. Did you find anything wrong with my interviewing skills?" My colleague assured her that she had not. Even though I had not been introduced to her, and despite the fact that, at that moment, I was a lone with five women all of whom were wearing engagement rings, I said, "Lose the rock!" Everyone looked at me. The woman had the Hope Diamond on her finger. She, and my colleagues, asked for an explanation. "When a man sees that ring he immediately assumes you are high maintenance. When the woman at the office who has the largest diamond on her finger, sees that ring, she will realize that if you are hired she will fall to second place and will, therefore, not like you. Lose the ring!"
As I was reading this post, at first I thought the comment was insulting but then when I kept on reading I realized that Hurwitz does have a good point. When people see women with huge rings on their fingers, they automatically think that they are high maintenance and come from money. On the contrary I don't agree that women should be hired or not hired just because the size of their ring. What if a woman walks into a job interview, well educated and has great recommendations but, she has a huge ring on her finger?
Are you saying that you will not hire this woman because of her engagement ring? What if she just got lucky and found a man with great taste. If you were caught in this situation what would you do? Leave your engagement ring on or take it off?