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arghh my eyes!!! Do you work in a office supplies company?!!! 😆theotherjonv
I bet you wear jeans with those combinations!
Tip from me. Wear a neutral suit, plain shirt and understated but classy tie. Unsure of what a classy tie is? Pop into House of Fraser, Zara or Selfridges.
I will say this- if you wear the above the interviewer will mentally tick a boss in the first 5secs 'smart' then spend the rest of the meeting focusing on you. Only if he/she is BORED will their attention stray to your attire in detail.
Basically, the conversation is so involved they are focusing on your eyes and the two-way conversation that everything else is a blur anyway.
Wear something goofish or individual and you do risk them focusing on your dress and then forming a personal-opinion/bias.
So, a reasonably high quality Black suit THAT FITS YOU, pale blue shirt and subdued patterned tie works.
Going against the above though.....
I had a 60k candidate who went for a Purchasing Manager job wearing a bow-tie. He got it. **** knows how, it was bizarre!
He was a highly talented 'character'.
Go for blue to match your eyes.
Yeah that will work, specially since they are brown.
Never wear a patterned tie with a pattered shirt it looks terrible.Always wear a proper Windsor knot not the crooked school boy effort above
Blush in shame... I don't own a tie, neither do I know how to make the tie...
I'll pass on the suit to be honest as I can't cope with thinking every one will be looking at me thinking oh look he has a suit but he makes him look like a monkey. Plus I don't have the cash for a 400€ suit nor the time to have one cut.
I don't think people will bother too much as it's an academic job. Job description isn't full IT too, its computer science (basically doing some comp chem/mod mol while fixing everyone else computer when not working).
Plus I am not going to the south of France I am already there. So plenty of you may be right about the suit, but I'll take samuri's advice that I'd better be less smart and less sweaty. I'll let you know how things work out...