University students were asked to act as guidance counselors rating the suitability of stimulus persons for four male-dominated and four female-dominated occupations in two studies. In study 1 (N = 76) where no personality information was attributed to stimulus persons, sex bias was found. Males and females were rated suitable to the extent that their sex was congruent with the sextype of the occupation. In Study 2(N = 115), personality information, in the form of stereotypical ly masculine, feminine, or neutral characteristics, was added to the stimulus person descriptions. Sex bias emerged again with the neutral descriptions. With the masculine and feminine descriptors, however, sextype of personality descriptors was far more important than sex of stimulus person in determining suitability ratings. In line with the social cognition model of occupational suitability judgements proposed by Kalin and Hodgins (1984), it was concluded that with the provision of personal information about the stimulus persons, social category information becomes less significant. This article is based on a M.A. thesis by the first author under the supervision of the second.