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I read this all the time on City-Data and my question is this: Where the **** are you guys located? As a college student, all the interviews I've been to have had every single person show up wells-dressed suit, shirt, tie, socks, shoes, and all other essentials.
I have NEVER seen anyone show up in jeans and or shirts. Even at retail store interviews I (and everyone else I know) had on pants, shirt, and some even had ties.
This is an interesting conversation. I have never even owned a suit, but I have no problem getting a job. I work in HR and have interviewed hundreds if not thousands of people and I have only interviewed 4 people wearing a suit. None of them got the job. To me, saying that you have to wear a suit is like saying that you have to wear pantyhose. Very strange to me.
I think companies usually expect interviewees for white collar or office jobs to show up dressed professionally (suit/tie/dress shoes for men, and suit/blouse/pantyhose/pumps for women).
Blue collar job interviewees may be fine with a sport jacket/tie/dress pants for men, and a skirt or slacks/blouse/pantyhose/pumps for women.
When you don't dress professionally, you are, in effect, saying that you don't care about the company.
Wearing jeans is the equivalent of flipping off the interviewer and the company.
I read this all the time on City-Data and my question is this: Where the **** are you guys located? As a college student, all the interviews I've been to have had every single person show up wells-dressed suit, shirt, tie, socks, shoes, and all other essentials.
I have NEVER seen anyone show up in jeans and or shirts. Even at retail store interviews I (and everyone else I know) had on pants, shirt, and some even had ties.
Detroit is a blue collar town.
Thus, while taking the time to dress up in a fancy suit is nice and all, employers are only really concerned about what you bring to the table.
Heck, it's very hard to catch our current governor ever wearing a tie.
I read this all the time on City-Data and my question is this: Where the **** are you guys located? As a college student, all the interviews I've been to have had every single person show up wells-dressed suit, shirt, tie, socks, shoes, and all other essentials.
New York City. Depends on the company, not the location; if you're looking for a job with Goldman-Sachs or Morgan Stanley you'd suit up, but not for Google or (probably) Facebook. If you're doing a bunch of on-campus interviews in a day, you'd wear a suit for all of them if any of them expected it, but if you're going out for a regular interview, you dress as appropriate for the company.
I've never not worn a full suit, dress shoes, dress socks, tie, and a sports jacket to an interview even though I work in a lab and almost never wear a suit.
I've never seen someone not show up dressed formally for an interview. I mean why bother even showing up and wasting the time and gas? A job interview is the least enjoyable experience I've ever known (most due to HR baloney and ridiculous psychobabble). I'd rather scrub charred organic crud off a MS source.
I always dress to impress on a first interview because I am in a white collar line of work. My wife applied at a large airline and she said it was group interview and some people showed up looking like they were going clubbing. But then she is a a mature, attractive woman with a brain so she showed up in a business suit. Alas no hire company wants 20 somethings.
I refuse to wear suits to interviews. Their hot and uncomfortable. Some slacks, nice shoes and a good collar shirt or button down would do just fine.
Also it's a good way to stand out. Employers can tell one's personality from their attire.
The only thing I agree with is the no jeans part.
I agree that suits are hot and uncomfortable, and I hate wearing them, and I wish they would be abolished. But when I go to a job interview, I suck it up and wear a suit.
This is an interesting conversation. I have never even owned a suit, but I have no problem getting a job. I work in HR and have interviewed hundreds if not thousands of people and I have only interviewed 4 people wearing a suit. None of them got the job. To me, saying that you have to wear a suit is like saying that you have to wear pantyhose. Very strange to me.
Because they're stiffs. I've been interviewing for coporate jobs for the past few weeks and out of the 10 I've done; I've gotten 6 callbacks. No suit. I even got several compliments and props from dressing differently as well. My tie was a hit!
I don't get where people get this whole " no suit equals no job!"
That's insanity and I've never heard of something like that.
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