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New suit home from tailor -- internship interview tomorrow morning comments needed

post #1 of 43
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I have an interview tomorrow morning and was going to wear my new suit.  Its navy blue.  The pants are nice and slim (except the photo shows them slightly baggy looking due to the wind).  What needs to be fixed and can anyone comment about things I should do, besides for change my haircut?

 

Thanks everyone!

 

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post #2 of 43

Jacket sleeves look a touch long to me.  You want to show a little more shirt cuff.

post #3 of 43
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Originally Posted by Mike Ross View Post

Jacket sleeves look a touch long to me.  You want to show a little more shirt cuff.

No.

OP, the one thing that you might be able to do is to wear a more quiet tie than that and shave. Otherwise, start forgetting abouut your clothes, stop posting on SF, and begin thinking about the interview itself instead.

Good luck.
post #4 of 43
Tone down the tie, wear a shit shirt and lose the pocketsquare for the interview.
post #5 of 43
If your interview is tomorrow then you've not much of a chance to make too many changes. Get the basics right in terms of ensuring your shirt's ironed, trousers creased, shoes polished and so on and ensure your hair, hands and nails are clean.

My advice, for what it's worth, is don't spend any more time worrying about what your suit looks like (it's perfectly acceptable) and spend every available minute preparing for the interview itself. What questions are they likely to ask? What particular areas are your strengths that you'll want to steer the conversation towards? What experience/examples from your careeer to date are pertinent to the role and so on?

Of the hundreds of candidates I've interviewed in my own (entirely anonymous) career there isn't one I'd have given a job to based upon the strength of what they wore at the interview although a couple of the more shambolic looking ones have had to work harder to convince me.


In the couple of your posts on here I've read you always come across as a decent, polite and amenable Chap, make sure that comes across in the interview too and you'll do just fine.

Good luck.
post #6 of 43
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Originally Posted by Slippybee View Post

If your interview is tomorrow then you've not much of a chance to make too many changes. Get the basics right in terms of ensuring your shirt's ironed, trousers creased, shoes polished and so on and ensure your hair, hands and nails are clean.
My advice, for what it's worth, is don't spend any more time worrying about what your suit looks like (it's perfectly acceptable) and spend every available minute preparing for the interview itself. What questions are they likely to ask? What particular areas are your strengths that you'll want to steer the conversation towards? What experience/examples from your careeer to date are pertinent to the role and so on?
Of the hundreds of candidates I've interviewed in my own (entirely anonymous) career there isn't one I'd have given a job to based upon the strength of what they wore at the interview although a couple of the more shambolic looking ones have had to work harder to convince me.
In the couple of your posts on here I've read you always come across as a decent, polite and amenable Chap, make sure that comes across in the interview too and you'll do just fine.
Good luck.


Thank you for your kind words.  Luckily the interview tomorrow isn't as formal of an interview as I have made it out to be.  The man interviewing me has been a close family friend my entire life and is trying to set me up with an internship in Manhattan for the summer with one of his clients.  I'm going to his office to talk to him to explain my interests and skills.  I see him everyday in the summer on the beach in a social setting (playing volleyball) so I want to come off as business oriented, motivated, and enthusiastic as possible.

 

post #7 of 43
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No.
OP, the one thing that you might be able to do is to wear a more quiet tie than that and shave. Otherwise, start forgetting abouut your clothes, stop posting on SF, and begin thinking about the interview itself instead.
Good luck.
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Originally Posted by patrickBOOTH View Post

Tone down the tie, wear a shit shirt and lose the pocketsquare for the interview.


These.

 

post #8 of 43
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Originally Posted by TauKappaEpsilon View Post



Thank you for your kind words.  Luckily the interview tomorrow isn't as formal of an interview as I have made it out to be.  The man interviewing me has been a close family friend my entire life and is trying to set me up with an internship in Manhattan for the summer with one of his clients.  I'm going to his office to talk to him to explain my interests and skills.  I see him everyday in the summer on the beach in a social setting (playing volleyball) so I want to come off as business oriented, motivated, and enthusiastic as possible.



I wouldnt think of this as any more casual than any other interview you will ever have. Pretend you don't really know him as far as your level of professionalism.
post #9 of 43
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Originally Posted by Mike Ross View Post

Jacket sleeves look a touch long to me.  You want to show a little more shirt cuff.

No.

OP, the one thing that you might be able to do is to wear a more quiet tie than that and shave. Otherwise, start forgetting abouut your clothes, stop posting on SF, and begin thinking about the interview itself instead.

Good luck.
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Originally Posted by patrickBOOTH View Post

Tone down the tie, wear a shit shirt and lose the pocketsquare for the interview.

+1 (except for maybe the "shit shirt" thing because I don't know what that means...)
post #10 of 43
Update? It's too late for the interview, but the pocket square is extraneous, the tie is too yellow, and the suit looks too padded ("small head" effect). Also, the sleeves are off in multiple ways.
post #11 of 43
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Originally Posted by sugarbutch View Post

+1 (except for maybe the "shit shirt" thing because I don't know what that means...)

That's funny, I actually meant to say white shirt. Maybe I was just looking his shirt while typing...
post #12 of 43
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Originally Posted by mensimageconsultant View Post

Update? It's too late for the interview, but the pocket square is extraneous, the tie is too yellow, and the suit looks too padded ("small head" effect). Also, the sleeves are off in multiple ways.

This, this!!!

But there's nothing you can do about it before tomorrow, it looks as good or better than 70% of others out there so you'll be fine.
post #13 of 43
FWIW I've always been told that you shouldn't wear brand new clothes to an interview because you subconsciously behave differently.

Also that tie.
post #14 of 43
Thread Starter 

The interview went very well, it lasted three hours plus the owner of the company bought me lunch at the end.  He's calling a buddy at the only real estate company in the fortune 500 to try to get me a summer internship then a job after graduation.  

 

I ended up switching up the outfit slightly, I wore the same navy suit, but with a solid light blue spread collar shirt and a blue repp tie with two narrow silver stripes.

post #15 of 43
Excellent.
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