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Subject:Re: Question about dressing for job interviews From:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 13 Jan 2002 19:57:44 -0700
Three words: Wear a suit.
I work in Florida, at a company with a casual dress code (khakis/golf
shirts, jeans on Friday). This means that if I'm interviewing you on a
Friday, I'll probably be wearing jeans and a Hawaiian shirt. The last
company I worked at here allowed us to wear whatever we wanted - shorts,
flipflops, etc.
But at both companies, any interviwees had better be wearing suits, or
we'd wonder how seriously they took the interview. It's just good manners.
I have heard that it's different for programmers (or developers, or
whatever they want to call themselves on a given day). But for a writing
gig, wear a suit. It won't kill you. And they're handy for weddings and
funerals, too.
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