Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!diablo1.news.osn.de!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:49:20 -0600 Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:49:19 +0000 From: lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> Organization: Trollbusters 3 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews References: <529e942e$0$304$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> In-Reply-To: <529e942e$0$304$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <1eSdnfVqif-d0gLPnZ2dnUVZ8hednZ2d@bt.com> Lines: 30 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-PMrr47GgGs213mcXgEN9uqKQ7Apei2MRXQpAWkxO9JQzMVaE0uVMT7V+f5qeKtKcjnoUZvsm/XbwQBN!H0ZIS6iF0pdYVhyB+GbqCVlUeShid7ZhdOQXtXMBTMghsVC4Hofqmhi6hqKOCFcS+D3ypuSHAQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2366 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:26726 On 04/12/13 02:32, Arne Vajhoej wrote: > On 12/3/2013 3:44 AM, lipska the kat wrote: >> On 02/12/13 18:17, Arnold wrote: >>> I'm an old guy and haven't been on a job interview in a while. Is it >>> still normal practice to wear suits to interviews in the IT field or is >>> business casual very common now? >>> >>> I don't want to get off on the wrong foot and disqualify myself by >>> making the wrong choice of clothing. >> >> I never got this whole "what you wear is more important than what you >> do" thing at job interviews. > > In most jobs the attitude towards the job is as important as the > technical skills. > > The suit send out a signal that one consider a job interview a > serious/important thing. > > Ignoring the dress code send out a signal that one do not really care > about the job. God luck to the OP Let us know how you get on -- Lipska the KatŠ: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer, treacherous feline and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun GNU/Linux user #560883 - http://www.linuxcounter.net