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It can be difficult to know the expectations of attire for an employer. I do think there are times when you can over-dress, and I did it once. It was for a receptionist job in a very casual office, and the interviewers were dressed in worn blue-jeans. They told me that their mode of dress is expected there, and I felt a bit uncomfortable because I didn't want to give them the wrong impression.
But I do believe in NOT deceiving your interviewers. I'll wear decent clothes, even with a blazer. But I wear bright colors and I rarely tie my hair up. Therefore, I will not wear all-black and French-twists to an interview. I want them to see what they'd be getting.
Well, if you wear the blue suit, white shirt, that they tell you to wear for glee club, I dont' think you can go wrong ;-)
How can you possibly know what their attire is before you have met them. It is not like you wore a gown or Maharaji outfit. It was just a suit, which is the symbol of job hunting or a whitecollar job. I have seen young kids applying for a restaurant busser job, in their sunday best. Why not, you can always dress down, later.
As a person who conducted many interviews over the years (mostly for office setting, semi-casual dress) I always appreciated it when candidates wore business attire. This normally translates to a nice suit, fairly conservative hairstyle, face-jewelry removed (not including pierced ears here) no huge, wraparound tattoos showing, etc. That's an appropriate style for an "office job". Wearing a suit conveys a message that you are serious about this job and you cared enough to put your best foot forward. It signals respect.
Above all, look clean! Even if the job was for file clerk or warehouse fork-lift driver, if you show up looking too casual, unkempt or slovenly, it looks like you're not terribly serious about working. When interviewing people who looked grubby, as if they'd just rolled outta bed and didn't bother to brush their teeth or comb their hair, I figured they were at the interview because the unemployment or welfare office required them to go through the motions of a job interview in order to keep their money flowing. Not very impressive, especially when you're interviewing multitudes of folks for a limited number of open positions.
In the spirit of TV guy and his clothes angst (lol) I wore the suit and it was actually looking even better because I have been working out since January and lost weight.
In the spirit of TV guy and his clothes angst (lol) I wore the suit and it was actually looking even better because I have been working out since January and lost weight.
+1 for confidence!
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