Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 21:11:34 +0100 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net P9wLQHRK7XFlOGX8+X8aiwAYlphUeySvB+do4NHdl+BGFC5mo= Cancel-Lock: sha1:2QqiMM0n3W1ldEWA5wpff96pY54= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 131202-2, 02.12.2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:26701 On 02.12.2013 19:17, 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 can only speak for my part of the world: here it's usual to wear suits. But jeans and a jacket might also be OK in some placs. It probably depends on the company where you are applying. My rule of thumb would be: if unsure, rather more formal than less. But even that may be subject to local changes. Kind regards robert PS: "here" is the largest part of Old Europe(TM). ;-) -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/