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Subject:Re: Dressing for (Interview) Success From:"Karen E. Black" <kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:08:28 -0400
A thoughtful interviewee has researched the company in advance. Web sites
and literature often provide a glimpse of the corporate culture that
suggests appropriate dress. Likewise, a thoughtful business or pleasure
traveller looks at the resources that advise on proper dress for many
locations and situations. Recruiters might even suggest appropriate dress
for specific meetings.
It doesn't take a Mister Blackwell to figure out who REALLY wants the job.
An anecdote:
Some years ago (maybe 12?), a lady's suit with jacket and a knife-pleated
skirt was in fashion. The skirt's pleats were basted together to keep their
shape in the packing box and on the store hanger until you got it home, and
then you were supposed to take the single long basting thread out to let the
pleats swing free. A job candidate arrived in such a suit (I think it was
even purple) that still had the basting thread in place. She walked like
Mrs. Wiggins. I don't remember ever seeing her again...
Karen Black in Toronto, doesn't need a sweater at work during energy
conservation days
