What to Wear for the Interview?

Find some helpful tips for the interview here. What to dress and how to behave for making a good impression on your interviewers
 
What to Wear for the Interview?


wear-interviewYou should look presentable at the interview to make a good impression. Also It’s a good idea to wear what you are comfortable in. Your suit could be either smart-casual or suit and tie. It is better not to wear trainers, jeans and t-shirt to the interview. It will be considered as you couldn’t find anything more intelligent then wear that. Although remember - it’s better to be dressed badly and feel confident, than look very beautiful and uncomfortable! At your interview you will see people wearing clothes with different levels of smartness and officiality.  Try not to forget that interviewers won’t dress up for you, so there’s no need to dress up for them.



Tips:
1. Never overdo with your perfume, makeup etc.
2. Try to limit jewelry
3. Try on your outfit before the day of interview
4. Check you hear, it should be well-groomed
5. It always better to be overdressed than underdressed

How to behave during the interview?
At the interview attention is mostly paid on how you talk and answer the questions, than what you answer. Proper communication can be the point of your success. It includes not only verbal communication, but nonverbal one as well. Psychologists recommend remembering next five nonverbal tips.

1. Use eye contact. It is beyond the necessity! In case you have a look around during the conversation, your interlocutor will consider this as a short attention span or the lack of interest. At least it may indicate that you don’t have enough confidence in what you are saying and even can through out a hint that probably you are lying. But you can practice at home how to keep an eye contact successfully. At first watch how other people do this. Ask your friends whether they had noticed some insecurity in your look. If they yes, ask them to define when exactly it happened – during listening or speaking. For solving this problem, sit down with a friend and practice until you start to maintain eye contact sincere and continuously.

2. Pose – shows how confident and promising you are. Without taking into account your height or how slim you are, you should stand tall and sit tall. While standing – stand up straight, while sitting – check either you are sitting on the middle of the chair and are not bending somewhere aside.

3. Check your facial expressions. Many people are totally unaware of the gloomy, disconcerted, nervous expression plastered on their faces during the serious conversations. Often people get their funny nicknames due to their expressions. Stay in front of the mirror and take a long conscious look at yourself. Practice to modify your facial expressions:  try to express some negative emotions, than add positive smile or look. Usually interviewees shows a kind of grin - this is their mistake, as only genuine light smile tells your interviewers that you are in a good mood and happy to be interviewed.

4. Limit your gestures during the important interview. You’d better get rid of unnatural movements. If you cannot live without using gestures, check either they are not artificial.

5. During the conversation don’t approach to your interviewer closer than 40 inches, otherwise you will look threateningly. Stay in the frame of your personal space, and don’t break into other’s one.

Nonverbal expressions can be also called body language. Its words can tell a lot about person’s feeling and attitude to the situation. (For example, open-lipped smiling means openness and warmth, “praying” position with crossed arms – confidence, wringing hands and twiddling thumbs – nervousness. Be aware of your habits and try to control them. Do your best to make a good impression on your interviewer both verbally and nonverbally.