Many job seekers stress more about dressing for a job
interview than they do about preparing themselves to
answer the questions they will be asked in that job
interview. This is, in a word, silly. What you wear to
your job interview is important, granted, but it is
not something that you can build your success on. All
that it does is prevent you from failing for that
reason. To put it another way, very few interviews end
with the hiring manager saying “Well, that candidate
was completely unqualified, intellectually deficient
and academically unprepared for the job. But did you
look at that suit? He’s hired!” It is, however, much
more likely that a candidate who is dressed
inappropriately might be downgraded in their
evaluation because he or she does not appear to “fit
into the corporate culture.”
For this reason, dressing for a job interview should
be seen as an exercise in risk avoidance. When you
pick out your interview clothes, you aren’t so much
dressing to impress anyone with your style as much as
you are dressing not to offend anyone and to fit into
the environment of the interview. As superficial as
this sounds, that is the compromise that each employee
makes when he or she joins a large and structured
organization. In order to take advantage of the
benefits of a large, organized, disciplined
organization of other people, every person in that
group must be willing to give up some of the benefits
of individualization.
More Dressing for a Job Interview Advice
Dressing for a job interview in an appropriate manner
indicates that the candidate understands the corporate
culture that he or she wants to work in, and that he
or she is willing to abide by its rules. This
reassures the management of the corporation that the
candidate will be someone who is worth expending the
time and effort to make a member of the organization.
In most corporate setting, appropriate job interview
attire is the business professional code of dress. For
men, this means a suit and tie. For women, this means
a pantsuit or a jacket and skirt.
For men and women dressing for a job interview means
toning down the color, cut and flashiness of the
clothing. Again, the point is to look as much like the
people in the office as possible, only a little bit
more formally dressed. These rules also apply to the
makeup, jewelry, and hairstyles of applicants as well.
For industries that are a little more fashionable,
such as advertising and fashion, the specifics might
change a bit. For instance, it’s probably more
acceptable to go into a fashion magazine job wearing a
bit more of an avant-garde look than it is to go into
a bank. But the principle is the same. You want to
look more or less just like the people already working
there, as a visual symbol of how well you are going to
fit into the organization.
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