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What are people wearing
What are people wearing to interviews?
For mens dress, is it a dark suit and plain tie?
Just want to be ready if I ever get a call.
Any other good tips are welcome.
LDD
For mens dress, is it a dark suit and plain tie?
Just want to be ready if I ever get a call.
Any other good tips are welcome.
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Ehm, just look at it this way. You have to look smart and sharp.
You are going to tell the people that you are the one 'suited' for the job. It's not always so that a dark suit with a plain tie works for anyone. Most of the time it works tho. Just don't walk in with a brown suit out of the seventies
Look around on the street at some managers or something, then try some suits on at the local tailor perhaps? I have a Boss and Armani suit. Both not really cheap, but hopefully they will pay off.
Get a second opinion from someone that joins you on the suit hunting
You are going to tell the people that you are the one 'suited' for the job. It's not always so that a dark suit with a plain tie works for anyone. Most of the time it works tho. Just don't walk in with a brown suit out of the seventies
Look around on the street at some managers or something, then try some suits on at the local tailor perhaps? I have a Boss and Armani suit. Both not really cheap, but hopefully they will pay off.
Get a second opinion from someone that joins you on the suit hunting
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If you check the Archive Reference Threads topic on the other Wannabes forum, you will find this thread linked to, as well as many others. I'm not sure it'll help much, though!
Actually, that reminds me - there was a long, long thread a couple of years ago about interview dress code. I'll see if I can dig it out. In the meantime - for all interviews, dress reasonably formally, with a collar and tie. Don't go overboard, and don't get too uptight about it.
Edit. OK, here's couple more:
Whate to wear for interview
What do I wear for an interview
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Actually, that reminds me - there was a long, long thread a couple of years ago about interview dress code. I'll see if I can dig it out. In the meantime - for all interviews, dress reasonably formally, with a collar and tie. Don't go overboard, and don't get too uptight about it.
Edit. OK, here's couple more:
Whate to wear for interview
What do I wear for an interview
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Your suit is just part of your overall appearance. Recruiters are looking how you will look in uniform. Therefore will they want you to represent their company. Are your shoes clean, are you clean shaven, is your hair brushed, have you got a belt that is better suited to a cowboy, does your suit fit, is it creased etc.
Best way to imagine it do not give them one thing about your appearance to pick fault with. Imagine it is your own wedding.
I interviewed one guy who had a pin stripped suit that did not fit and a white shirt with embroidary on and one of the collar buttons was not done. He was easily the best qualified for the job but there was no way he was representing our company!
Another guy turned up without a suit for a business job and said that cos he was on the dole he could not afford one but if i gave him the job he would get one immediately, again well qualified!
Another turned up wearing a nice suit with cowboy boots!
Another with an Alice band in his hair!
My mate interviewed a guy who was really dapper but had a nervous twich, in that every 20seconds he would just feel his cufflinks on both wrists and then make sure his tie was straight. He gave him a second interview but only so we could take bets on how many times he did it!
Best way to imagine it do not give them one thing about your appearance to pick fault with. Imagine it is your own wedding.
I interviewed one guy who had a pin stripped suit that did not fit and a white shirt with embroidary on and one of the collar buttons was not done. He was easily the best qualified for the job but there was no way he was representing our company!
Another guy turned up without a suit for a business job and said that cos he was on the dole he could not afford one but if i gave him the job he would get one immediately, again well qualified!
Another turned up wearing a nice suit with cowboy boots!
Another with an Alice band in his hair!
My mate interviewed a guy who was really dapper but had a nervous twich, in that every 20seconds he would just feel his cufflinks on both wrists and then make sure his tie was straight. He gave him a second interview but only so we could take bets on how many times he did it!
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This is someting I wrote, from one of the threads I linked to earlier. I hope it will give you some idea of the priorities, of dress and other things, at interview:
Yes, it had been a somewhat robust discussion!
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Perhaps you are one of those individuals who gets a kick out of the way you dress, and finds solace in Armani suits and similar such designer labels. Insofar as it goes, that's fine - but don't bring your prejudices to this forum. If you want to look like an escapee from the Harrods menswear department at your interview with me, and feel comfortable doing so, that's OK by me. Please understand that I will not be giving you extra points over and above the candidate who is averagely and appropriately smart. I will not be measuring how far your tie dangles, or giving a damn about where you got your shoes, or whether your cufflinks are a particularly fine example of designer chic.
I want to know what your personality is like; whether I can work with you for up to 16 hours at a time, and whether you have the technical knowlege and intelligence to attempt the training I will require you to undertake. I will find out about your ability to handle stress in the simulator, not from what you wear or how you wear it. In fact, I would be somewhat suspicious of a candidate who has spent as much if not more time on deciding what to wear, and how to wear it, as he has on preparing mentally for the interview ahead. I would have to question that individual's grasp of the priorities at hand, and wonder if he might employ similarly inappropriate decision making in the flight deck.
Your dress is just a small part of the overall assessment that will be made of you at interview. As long as you are adequately smart, your interviewers will be concentrating on much more salient aspects of you as a person and a pilot. If your dress is a distraction, either by being conspicuously scruffy, or by being conspicuously expensive or time consuming, it will go against you.
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I want to know what your personality is like; whether I can work with you for up to 16 hours at a time, and whether you have the technical knowlege and intelligence to attempt the training I will require you to undertake. I will find out about your ability to handle stress in the simulator, not from what you wear or how you wear it. In fact, I would be somewhat suspicious of a candidate who has spent as much if not more time on deciding what to wear, and how to wear it, as he has on preparing mentally for the interview ahead. I would have to question that individual's grasp of the priorities at hand, and wonder if he might employ similarly inappropriate decision making in the flight deck.
Your dress is just a small part of the overall assessment that will be made of you at interview. As long as you are adequately smart, your interviewers will be concentrating on much more salient aspects of you as a person and a pilot. If your dress is a distraction, either by being conspicuously scruffy, or by being conspicuously expensive or time consuming, it will go against you.
Scroggs
Scroggs
