Looking Good in a Job Interview

NOUBI SAYS: It has been proven that career training alone is not enough to assure success in life, but how you present yourself is often a deciding factor. In a job interview, your clothing project who you are. The moment you enter that room, the interviewer has already assessed 50% of you. It would be very difficult to justify the remaining 50% if it contracts the first 50%.

Looking Good in a Job Interview

For a Job Interview

Useful Tips!

✓  Remember that looking good will make you feel assured.

✓  Well-fitted clothing projects confidence, which you also want the interviewer to know.

✓  Make sure you wear something that fits the company's image you are applying.

✓  Make your clothes neat and clean. It's a symbol of being organized.

✓  Dress in a manner that you'll be able to maintain if you get the job.

✓  Bring along a leather briefcase or a trim handbag (to free hands for handshaking), which must be in good condition.

✓  Overdoing your hair (and makeup for ladies) will make the interviewer think you take a long break and stay in the restroom longer than usual.

✓  Open buttons (and too short skirts for ladies) will send a wrong signal of being flirted and will make the interviewer think you're dangerous to anyone's concentration. Being conservative is the best bet.

 ✓  Close-toe shoes do not only look conservative and appropriate. It is also safe for your feet at work.