Hey Ambitious Professionals! It's Linda Raynier of lindaraynier.com guiding you
to a career and life you'll truly enjoy. In today's video I am going to be
sharing with you my best tips on how to dress for your next upcoming interview I
have tips for both women and men so that you can impress employers you can look
and feel your best in your next upcoming interview
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As a career strategist I've had the honour of being able to help numerous
professionals land their dream job offers and if this is something that
you're interested in working with me one-on-one I can give you details about
that at the end of this video now as you know I've been sharing my career advice
and tips and strategies with you for the last little while now and throughout
this time period I've actually had quite a few people approached me and asked me
to do a video on what to wear in an interview and to be honest I kept
putting this topic aside because I was surprised that you guys wanted to know
about this now I wouldn't say I have a defined sense of style I just wear
clothes that I like and wear clothes that I feel comfortable in but
regardless of the fact that I'm not a fashion expert I decided I'll make this
video and I'll share my tips with you on how you can dress in your next upcoming
interview so that you can look and feel your best now let's start off with the
ladies for women I would save the sense of style that you should be going for
when it comes to an interview is classy yet chic now first let's talk about
clothing the first tip I have for you when it comes to clothing is to make
sure that your clothes fit if you decide that you want to wear a suit to an
interview I think that's a great idea there's nothing wrong with over dressing
better to over dress them to under dress so when it comes to wearing a suit you
want to wear a fitted blazer and fitted pants don't go into the interview
wearing an oversized blazer unless that's the style if you want to wear an
oversized blazer and wear a dress underneath or a collared shirt and a
skirt with an oversized blazer I think that's actually completely fine as long
as it's meant to be an oversized blazer but if it's meant to just fit your body
the blazer is like a fitted blazer then make sure it actually fits now you also
want to make sure that you keep the colors neutral so I say go for gray
maybe beige lack is absolutely fine as well we're a
white clean colored shirt underneath most preferably if you're wearing a suit
a full-on suit or wearing a neutral colored dress underneath your blazer
works as well now for men and clothing same thing you want to look classy you
want to look professional so when it comes to you going into the interview
that's pretty simple when it comes to clothing you want to wear a suit and
similar to the ladies you want to wear a fitted suit please no oversized poofy
shoulder suits and make sure your suits are clean if the last time you wore the
suit you had sweated in it or you just haven't had time to take it to the dry
cleaner make sure you do that before you go into the interview I've had to
conduct interviews where I've had individuals come into the room and you
could tell they didn't clean their suit that's extremely important that you have
a clean suit when you come in again also a probably a plain white collared shirt
and a tie all tucked in properly a suit fitting your body as well that's a great
option to wear for the interview now let's talk about shoes so for the ladies
if you're gonna wear heels I highly recommend just wearing a simple pair of
shorter heels kitten heels they call them rather than wearing stilettos or
just really huge chunky heels it can give the wrong impression if you wear
you know just a heel with just a little bit of heights I think that's good
enough it'll still die up that nice classy look that you're going for and I
would probably go for just a plain black heel or a nude colored heel for men when
it comes to shoes very simple just faux leather or real leather dress shoes they
don't have to look super crazy they don't have to have crazy patterns they
don't have to have all those holes in them just a simple pair of dress shoes
try to make sure again that they also fit your feet that they're not too big
too clunky too chunky and maybe not too pointed at the same time I've seen some
really pointy dress shoes so just you know one that fits your foot fits you
feet and gives a nice shape and ties up the look that you're going for which is
that professional yet classy suited up look oh and about the shoes if they're
leather or even if they're not just make sure they're polished not dusty and fill
it full of dirt make sure you polish them before the
interviews now let's talk about hair so for women when it comes to hair this is
my personal opinion but instead of tying your hair in a ponytail or doing it up
in a bun I actually prefer that you have your hair down as a recruiter I feel
that it gives a more confident and self-assured look when you have your
hair down it's nice and neat of course and it's just free-flowing rather than
having your hair in a really tight bun or really tight ponytail I just feel
like it gives a little bit of a different vibe so that's my personal
opinion you do what you feel is best and most comfortable for you but if you can
leave your hair down for the interview now when it comes to hair for men as you
know hire managers for the most of them they want to work with clean people so
make sure your hair is clean cut as well nothing to straggly or messy I mean
ideally if you could comb it and gel it that's perfect but not overly gelled
where it's super shiny and glistening in the fluorescent light just nice combed
neat cut hair now when it comes to makeup this is I guess more applicable
for the ladies I would say don't go for an overly made up look if you can stick
with a neutral bronzy makeup no makeup look I think that's what it is I think
that's what it's called that would be great nothing too overly done so that
would mean just foundation eyeliner mascara blush lipstick lip gloss
eyebrows a little bit of highlighter maybe just a little bit and that's good
enough and then finally let's talk about accessories so when it comes to
accessories such as earrings bracelets I currently don't have really anything on
my wrist right now but normally I would wear a watch in terms of earrings if you
wear earrings then I would go for studs diamonds or pearls something that's not
too dangly not too partyish just a simple necklace if you prefer wearing a
necklace and if you want to wear a bracelet you can just something again
not too distracting for men accessories is a lot easier like I said earlier wear
a tie and wear a nice watch as well I mean it doesn't have it to be anything
crazy expensive just a nice business professional looking watch you know
whether it's leather or otherwise that's good as well there you have it those are
my best tips on how to dress for your next upcoming interview so that you can
look your best now if you are looking for a new position and you've been
looking for the last little while and you haven't been getting many results
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