Question about dressing for job interviews

[Emsahlstein -at- cs -dot- com]

Hi,
I'm just getting started looking for a job and I'm wondering what people's 
opinions are on the following question: Do you have to wear a suit? In my 
former field (journalism) I tended to side with the people who say you should 
wear a suit no matter how casual the prospective workplace is, and I never 
had any problems. But not that I'm in high-tech, well ... I wonder if the 
people who came up with that rule anticipated anything like this business, 
which is sometimes so casual that you risk (I think) looking out of touch if 
you show up in a suit. 

I've run this past a few of my tech writing colleagues here in Boston and the 
majority opinion I've gotten is: you should wear a suit to show respect for 
the situation and, even if you look a little out of place on the day of the 
interview, the interviewers should be understanding about that, given that 
it's a job interview. In the same vein, the other comment I've heard is that 
if you were a suit, it really can't count against you, but if you don't wear 
a suit it can. Also, some have said that it's okay to dress down a bit on a 
second interview, but make sure you wear a suit on the first. I'm starting to 
lean toward this point of view (the pro-suit view) but am wondering what 
other people's thoughts are on this...?

thanks, em

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