Choosing Appropriate Attire for a Job Interview Based on Corporate Image

"I'm Don Varney of Varney Speaks and on behalf of Expert Village. Today we're going to talk about the interview process. If you're going to work, make sure your shirt's ironed for an example. You can wear blue jeans. Make sure they're clean. Make sure they're pressed. If you're going to wear the ball cap, don't wear it at the desk. In other words, you can walk into the building with your ball cap on, remove your hat, sit down, and go into the interview. That's fine. Now, if you're going to a corporate job, now you've got to go a different direction. At that point, you are going to wear a suit. What do you do? You research the company. Go to their website. Look at the pictures on the website. Find out what the workplace looks like. This might be a corporate world that everybody wears button down collar shirts and khaki pants. That might be the corporate image they're looking for, so go in wearing button down collar shirts and khaki pants. That's a great way on the guys side. If you go to another environment and the ladies all are wearing slacks and pant suits instead of dresses or skirts, then come in wearing your pant suits, wearing slacks. There's not a problem with dressing appropriately for the company you're trying to get hired by. Upper level management, you're going to walk in to power suit. You're going to have on the pinstripes. You're going to have on the white shirt, power tie. You're going to have everything in place, the high dollar watch. You're going to be sitting there with your leather brief, pulling out your signature pen because you're applying for the job as a CEO or the COO of the company or vice president. You need to look and act as if you're a successful well-read, intelligent individual that's been there, done that, and in essence, is ready to take over that position at a moment's notice."