[Sigia-l] Sigia-l Digest, Vol 30, Issue 28

[Ziya Oz]

Sara Alloy:

> Dressing up means you have respect for the company, those interviewing
> you, and yourself.

How so? 

As you say, the impression is made within seconds and it's usually
extraordinarily difficult to alter that during the course of an interview. I
live and work in Wall Street, where the brand names you wear tell your story
even before you open your mouth.

As an example, there are many enclaves within (normally suffocatingly
conservative and risk-averse) financial companies that run skunk-works type
of operations that aim to transform certain segments of the company/industry
in unorthodox ways. Like anybody else, they need technical people, business
analysts, MBAs, even IAs. You walk into one of those interviews in a
three-piece suite, you might as well just walk right out: they want rebels,
not compliers.

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Ziya

"If I had asked my customers what they wanted,
they would have asked for a faster horse." -- Henry Ford