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Interview dress code
Smooth Operator:
Charm baby, Charm.
UncaBuffalo:
Another vote AGAINST the suit.
The gurus on the subject always say, "One step above what you will wear on the job." HP is blue jeans & no collar at most plants (dockers & a collar at a few). If you show up in a suit, you are:
1. Way overdressed per the One-Step-Above rule.
and
2. Going to raise questions in some supervisors' eyes as to whether you are going to be willing to get into the job & get dirty. HP teching is an In-the-Trenches position & you don't want to give the impression that you are above diving in.
RDTroja:
--- Quote from: UncaBuffalo on Sep 03, 2009, 07:56 ---Another vote AGAINST the suit.
The gurus on the subject always say, "One step above what you will wear on the job." HP is blue jeans & no collar at most plants (dockers & a collar at a few). If you show up in a suit, you are:
1. Way overdressed per the One-Step-Above rule.
and
2. Going to raise questions in some supervisors' eyes as to whether you are going to be willing to get into the job & get dirty. HP teching is an In-the-Trenches position & you don't want to give the impression that you are above diving in.
--- End quote ---
Spot on advice, as usual.
scaife:
I would suggest that the form of dress can also depend on your personal background.
Having recently had an interview in the industry myself, successful one at that, I chose to wear a suit for a number of reasons. The reasons being were the appearance of professionalism, not knowing ahead of time what form of dress my interviewers would be in, etc.
Now I also happen to have a work history that includes construction as a heavy equipment operator which covered my willingness to "get dirty" --dive into work .. not being willing to jump into a radiological mess ;) --
But from what I have read here I would suggest chinos, with a shirt and tie .. skip the suit coat. That way you are still presentable without the worry or being over-dressed.
- Cheers
dynamike:
I was hired in February for an ops job. I wore to my interview a conservative suit, heavy starched white shirt, conservative tie, nice watch (no other jewelry even though I wear an earring everday to work), nicely trimmed beard (you may not want to so as to avoid the question of shaving it), and black dress shoes with a matching belt & silver buckle. It was cold out that day, so when I walked in to the interview and saw the interviewers wearing slacks and casual shirts, I took off my jacket (after asking of course) and made a comment about how I was glad to be out of the full monkey suit. That's how I dressed down on the fly.
I got the job, but not because of the clothes. I got it because of me. The clothes just allowed the me to start out on a level playing field.
scaife, does this mean I get a nickel from you?
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