Search for new work - an important stage in the life of every woman. The excitement at the interview is also experiencing yesterday student, and a successful careerist, and mom after a decree, doubting in his professionalism.
But there are moments that you have to remember absolutely everyone: employers are still looking not only in resume, but also to the appearance of applicants. Solving how to dress for an interview, you have to remember about the set of little things. The reason for refusal may be non-compliance with the corporate dress code, deliberate sexuality or sludge of the image.
Male have to be no longer easier. They decide whether it is possible to wear jeans and also worry about the choice of hairstyle, the need to perform a manicure. Changing seasons can also add problems. What to go to the interview to women in summer and autumn, whether free linen costumes will be appropriate for men - the search for answers to these questions only adds unrest.
Finding a golden middleweight to create the right image will be easier if you study the useful tips and recommendations in advance already proven in practice.
How important is the appearance?
At the interview, most applicants expect professional skills to evaluate. But in practice, business qualities often overshadow the wrong impression.
The first, where to start preparation for communication with the employer is not a manicure or hairstyle, but Study of corporate traditions . If the company has a dress code, you need to study it in detail. Employees are preferred to go to work, you can on the official websites of the company or with the help of other Internet resources.
When submitting a resume and passing the interview It is important to look like the applicant is already part of the team. It helps a personnel care specialist immediately assess the readiness of the new employee to join the already formed corporate culture.
The importance of the appearance has its opposite direction. The appearance of the employee must comply with the position for which he claims.
"RV" or non-standard hairstyle, catchy manicure, bright hair coloring, piercing - all these details of appearance are allowed to accept work in a tattoo salon or bar . But for the office, such accents may be absolutely unacceptable.
The manifestation of bright individuality can be hidden using clothes, styling, other measures and in search of work in a serious company, it is better to take care of this in advance. The times of programmers in stretched sweaters were held - today even an IT specialist looks like a successful professional, and not yesterday's schoolboy.
General recommendations
What to go for an interview to the employer, each applicant solves himself. If we are talking about the sphere where it is customary to wear a uniform, you can dress in the style of Casual.
You can go to work too in jeans, shirt, ordinary dense trousers, blouses. Representatives of creative professions say goodbye more fashionable misses, but to surprise is better not an explosion of color or abundance of jewelry, but non-standard cut, clean hair and good laying.
If nothing is known about the dress code in the company, It is worth navigating professional standards. Most professions related to work with customers, communicating with people, imply a neat, neat and neutral appearance of the staff.
In this case, the win-win option for any interview will be Use classic style in clothing. Dress-case-discovered black, wine, gray, blue or chocolate color, shoes or shoes in tone, elegant jacket, cardigan, light coat - here is an image that will help successfully pass the stage of a personal conversation with a representative of the employer.
A strict male suit can also be different, but it is worthwhile to avoid tuxedo and trinks when hiking for an interview. You should not get a jacket pair from the closet, which was last worn on the graduation ball.
Let it be inexpensive, but a new suit of modern cut. If there is no strict dress code in the company, you can wear a gray, blue or burgundy shirt, give up a tie, unbuck the top button.
It is important to note that The clothing selected for the interview must be clean, smooth. It should be avoided strongly worn, which has lost their shape of things. The manicure should be neutral - colorless or on the tone of the skin, neat, men, too, should not forget about the purity of the nails, the condition of the skin of the hands, especially if they claim a high position.
The haircut is better to update not earlier than 1 week before the interview, in the stacking to avoid Hollywood curls and other fastened details.
Be sure to take into account the status and the position to claim the applicant. Specialists in any areas usually choose Casual clothes, a strict suit in this case will demonstrate that a person is not aware of the rules of business etiquette.
Officers wear rigorous costumes, it will be strange to look like any deviation from professional standards. Denim clothing - the lot of informal and creative personalities, freelancers, journalists, photographers, designers.
Selection of garments and age
To properly dress for an interview, it is necessary to take into account the age category and the floor of the applicant. Young people are forgiven some miscalculations in the dress code. Mature applicants at first glance should demonstrate self-confidence and striving for success.
After 50 years, men are appropriate to go to suits-triples with vests. Women over 45 years old are worth moving from skirts to pants, allowing to hide some features of the shape and possible problems with veins.
Men
For the successful passage of the interview, a man needs to create an image of a self-confident person. This is easiest to achieve with the following elements.
- Double costume Classic Croes, well-sitting in the figure. It is better not to take rent and at least 1-2 times to wear before the interview. The color scheme must be restrained, shades of blue, gray colors are suitable.
- White shirt landing slim-fit. It has a fitted cut, the sleeve is better to choose a long, gate is glad freely than the neck circumference.
- Clean, well-kept black shoes, dark brown. Best impression produce shoes on laces. The summer are allowed moccasins and lic apartments.
- Belt. It should be brush, one color with shoes.
- Socks. They should be high, dark, monophonic, natural cotton. It is better to wear a new pair.
If the tie is obligatory, it is worth preferred to a wide triangular version of natural silk. Optimal node - Volumetric "Windsor". Color - blue, dark blue, red.
It is worth taking care of the presence of a clamp for a tie so as not to correct it.
Women
Before passing the interview to a girl and a woman, it is important to correctly decide what to wear on such an important meeting. It is worth preparing several options for sets in case, at the last moment it will be needed to be replaced or will be the weather. A universal solution will be a business suit with trousers or skirt of the midi of the fictory or semi-waving silhouette.
The trouser should not create assemblies in groin and kneeling, hang out on the hips. The optimal fit of the costume is on the figure, with a high waist line. The jacket shirt must be closed closed, with a long sleeve, without a deep cut in the neckline zone.
Silk tops are allowed only if the upper part of the costume is not planned to be removed. Suit with the skirt is necessarily complemented by thin pantyhose of corporal color. If the dress code is not too formal, a woman can afford to come to an interview in a strict dress with a long or short sleeve (in combination with jacket).
Mandatory condition - the length is lower than the knee, the color should also be neutral. Adjust the features of the figure can be using special linen. Skirt or pants and pullover at the interview are appointed in the autumn-winter period, in this case the top should be light or neutral in color.
The influence of the season
Seasonal selection of clothing for the interview often puts even self-confident people in a dead end.
Rules that should be adhered to not look stupid or ridiculous.
- Summer . The optimal choice of clothing for interviewing the season implies the use of natural tissues of light blue, pale gray, peach shade. Dark blue, black, red costume will look inappropriate, close skirt better prefer loose pants sitting high on the waist. The flax is better to avoid - he quickly loses the shape, it turns out, it looks slightly after 30-40 minutes of socks. Going to the interview in the heat, it is better to abandon the use of perfume with a sharp aromatic composition, a deep neckline, but about antiperspirants, matting and wet napkins it is better to take care in advance.
- Autumn and Spring . It all depends on climatic and weather conditions. But in general, these seasons suggest the possibility of a variable approach to the choice of clothing for the interview. Thin jumpers and cardigans in combination with classic or fitted shirts, well-sitting trousers and skirts, light raincoats or coats will help create the desired mood when preparing for an interview.
In the color scheme, natural natural tones can be preferred - beige and brown, deep blue, green, burgundy, on which the weather features do not affect.
- Winter. Dense fabrics, wool, tweed or cashmere, the ability to add vests or volumetric sweaters to classic trousers. Winter time corresponds to a cold color scheme, without soft pastel shades. The length of the skirt moves from the midi to the maxi, the coats are relevant to the middle of the hips, gloves, but from the head remove it is better to refuse.
Seasonal rules apply to the choice of shoes. Even in the summer under the ban shoes with an open toe and heel, slippers, too high and thin studs. Winter boots for a meeting with a potential leader is worth choosing in a business style, leaving informal rest shoes.
Women instead of boots need to give preference to the ankle. It is unacceptable to come to an interview in an unclean, too much done shoes.
What do not need to wear?
Ripped jeans, stubborn shirt, stretched t-shirt, sneakers in the style of rap artists, checkered "cowboy" - that's just a small list of what is not needed to come to the interview. In addition, from the list of outfits It is worth excluding excessively informal clothing.
For example, loose colored shirts for men, over-tight trousers and T-shirts, things are not in size. Representatives of strong sex should be avoided stretched, dirty or outdated clothes, unclean shoes. Under the ban, massive decorations - rings, chains, bracelets, belts with high buckles.
The female wardrobe also has its exceptions. For example, you should abandon the idea to try on the interview long earrings, ringing bracelets, overly catchy necklaces and brooches. When you select the bag, you should give preference to the leather folder for documents or clutch without cracks and other traces of wear.
It is unacceptable in business etiquette the use of cramped, tight clothes, a demonstration of a naked abdomen and shoulders sticking out underwear. A sign of poor taste is also considered too bright paints, predatory and animal prints in clothing.
Even in the summer, the interview is unacceptable to pass in Sarafan on straps, short shorts and shirts. It is impossible to choose as shoes army boots or boots boots, especially in combination with an extreme mini. Pink color, even in moderate gamma, it is worth excluding - it is often perceived as a sign of frivolity.
