Dressing For Success - What is wrong with people?

[EnderJE]

I'd hire the guy who can do the job based on the skill set, experience and the behavioral interview. But then again, I'm not really in a sales type job where image is paramount.

Nor do I want to work for those where image is paramount. I used to do that.

They all seemed like "big hat, no cattle" type people.

 

[yonkers weights]

Image is EVERYTHING in this business. You have to look the part. When I ran health clubs, if I person came in a suit I would not hire them. You need to dress for the role! Plain and simple!

 

[covergrl80]

Just give him the job. His clothes are not doing the work the man is.

 

[yonkers weights]

Again - he did not WOW me. Even if he had a suit on, not sure if I would hire him. That is not the only reason he is not getting hired.

 

[EnderJE]

Image is EVERYTHING in this business. You have to look the part. When I ran health clubs, if I person came in a suit I would not hire them. You need to dress for the role! Plain and simple!

Dude, relax. I was saying that my business isn't like that. I used to be in that type of business, but I'm not anymore.

However, if I had a sales type position with high power clients, I would show him the door if he came in without looking the part.

 

[yonkers weights]

I was not being an ass. Sorry if it came across that way!

 

[manny78]

Men, cast off your conformist garb and unleash creativity with T-shirts at work
By Peter Fleischer

Published: July 21 2007 03:00 | Last updated: July 21 2007 03:00

From Mr Peter Fleischer.

Sir, Your fashion editor analyses whether the tie has a future ("In spite of Paxman, the tie will flap again", Outside Edge, July 14/15). Well, it has a rather bloody past, to be sure.

It constricts circulation to the brain. And it acts as decorative camouflage for the business suit, designed to shield the middle-aged male physique, with its shrinking shoulders and protruding paunch, from feeling sufficiently self-conscious to hit the gym.

Men should lose their "business attire" and wear T-shirts to work. Wouldn't you like to know whether your business partners are fit? Why should you trust a man in business if he abuses his own body? And heaven knows what waves of creativity might be unleashed, when men are freed from conformist garb.

If your fashion editor can hardly imagine a better garment for men to exhibit their personality, power and masculinity than wearing ties, well . . . I work at Google. Our unofficial motto is, "Be serious without a suit."

Peter Fleischer,

Global Privacy Counsel,

Google,

75002 Paris,

France

 

[yonkers weights]

GREAT FIND MANNY!
I would love business casual or tee shirt attire. At the gym I was able to pull that off but not these days. I have to deal with what rules I am given until I own the bank...

 

[abolish the weak]

Well, what if this guy was from another area where they discouraged suits? When I lived in NY everyone wore suits to corporate jobs. Then I moved to a different type of climate and environment in the south, and people wear polo shirts and khacki pants. It does not mean they do the job any worse. Just tell him he needs to wear one if he wants to work there. Base the interview on everything else, him not wearing a suit was a one time deal, you can fix that. You may get someone else in there who has the nicest,newest suit, but is a fucking idiot. IMO

 

[yonkers weights]

He has lived in NY longer then I have been alive and has done this type of job with another group that wears suits for 8 years.