[Sigia-l] Dress Code

[Ziya Oz]

Antoine.Valot at ins.com:

> Dressing "up" a little for an interview is a way of saying that you care
> enough about the job/company/interviewers that you will go through the
> trouble of putting on nice clothes for them at least once.

This doesn't quite make sense to me. What if the company's dress code is in
fact casual and this person shows up "dressed-up"? As the hiring manager do
I think he made a mistake? That he's just being "polite" to us? That he
can't quite calibrate his response? That he really wants to work at a place
where he can dress up? That he's interested in management track and perhaps
not getting his hands dirty? That he's just a stiff? And so on.

> Also, advertising works, and any sale (interview included) has a strong
> emotional component.

Certainly.

> Dressing up helps you sell yourself.

Not at a place where dressing up isn't considered an essential
functionality/strength. In fact, the ability to know how to dress down
properly is more difficult to learn.

> Sex sells

Tell me about it. :-)

> If you're about to tell me that tech people don't care about image...

I wasn't. 

To go back to what I said, if interview dress code is about "image" as you
say or signaling intentions as I would put it, is it better to send a signal
truly in sync with your comfort level and and see if it matches with the
company's, rather than simply send a signal of compliance with which you may
have difficulty every day during your tenure there?

Just askin'.

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Ziya

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they would have asked for a faster horse." -- Henry Ford