• GSquared (5/31/2016)


    David.Poole (5/27/2016)


    If you turn up to an interview as Britain's worst presented compost heap then more fool you. You don't know who you are going to meet, whether visitors to the interviewing company are going to mistake you for an employee and get a negative view of the company.

    By all means dress to the corporate standard once you have the job but when attending an interview you are out to impress on every level.

    There's a reason that the military have uniforms and the legal profession have a dress code. It's all about personal pride and self discipline. When interviewing candidates what do I have that shows that the candidate takes pride in themselves and is disciplined. It's obviously not foolproof but I need something other than words.

    You may disagree but with more candidates than roles I'm looking for anything that demonstrates an edge. My gaff my rules so man up princess

    And, as a hiring manager, I don't care about it. I'm not saying show up in a degraded state (dirty, unhygienic, foul-smelling, hypersexualized, etc.), I'm saying I don't give points for best-dressed when I interview.

    Well so then you do have some standards for how people should be dressed for an interview and we're just debating at what point appearance would become an issue.