Interview apparel

[eek]

Sometimes agents haven't got a clue or make it up when they're telling what to wear. Before one face to face interview I was told suit and tie, to get there and find one interviewer in a hawaiin shirt and another wearing a Vans t-shirt and board shorts.
Then a few weeks later the same agent gets me an interview and says smart casual to get there and find everyone in suits.
Nowadays I ignore what the agent says and for video interviews have bought myself some plain shirts with my Ltd company name and logo on, with no tie. Seems to work - and it's IR35 compliant

It's many things - blooming stupid would be a my viewpoint

My go to business attire is smart casual - shirt with trousers, Jacket if out and about. There is little point wearing a suit or a tie nowadays.

[SueEllen]

What you wear is largely irrelevant. How you wear it is the important bit.

Bloody fashion guru!

[JamesC34]

Suited & booted for interviews, always, unless specifically told otherwise.

Yep.

I had an interview last week and got the job.

None of my interviewers were suited and booted, but I was. It felt right and I didn't regret it - I was the one who needed to impress after all. They need to think how this person will look representing the company in future.

[PerfectStorm]

A tie conveys the message "I care a lot about things that don't matter, and probably not enough about things that do"

True confidence is shown by wearing - and doing - what you want.

[malvolio]

Bloody fashion guru!

Not any more...

And anyway, when the current generation of team leaders grow up in a few more years and start hiring, none of it will matter anyway and candidates will be wearing nappies and rompers!

[GhostofTarbera]

I guess it depends on the industry and your experience but I think I have a different mindset if I'm smartly dressed. So even if I were on an audio only interview, I would still be smartly dressed if only to help me become the more professional version of myself.

Surly women just need to decide

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[PCTNN]

I wore suit and tie at interviews only at the beginning of my career when I was in my 20's. Didn't have anything else to offer so couldn't afford to be scruffy.

The older I get, the less I care about dress code. I just let my work and experience speak for itself. Jeans and shirt is as far as I push it.

Had 1 zoom interview some days ago and I was wearing a blue polo shirt. The only effort I made was to put my hair up in a man bun but just because I look like Charles Manson if I don't. Got invited to a second interview already so I know dress code is no issue.

[ladymuck]

I wore suit and tie at interviews only at the beginning of my career when I was in my 20's. Didn't have anything else to offer so couldn't afford to be scruffy.

The older I get, the less I care about dress code. I just let my work and experience speak for itself. Jeans and shirt is as far as I push it.

Had 1 zoom interview some days ago and I was wearing a blue polo shirt. The only effort I made was to put my hair up in a man bun but just because I look like Charles Manson if I don't. Got invited to a second interview already so I know dress code is no issue.

[PCTNN]

Between beard and long hair I currently can choose from:

- Man bun, which makes me look like a w4nker
- Pony tail, which makes me look like a paedo/bulgarian java developer
- Untied hair, which makes me look like Charles Manson or Jim Morrison before he died

[Paralytic]

Had 1 zoom interview some days ago and I was wearing a blue polo shirt. The only effort I made was to put my hair up in a man bun but just because I look like Charles Manson if I don't. Got invited to a second interview already so I know dress code is no issue.

Alternatively, the interviewer wanted to prove to other people that they weren't joking when he told them someone actually turned up for a Zoom interview with a man bun