Dress for an interview over Teams

Lemmy_kilmister

Lemmy_kilmister

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Suited and booted, or smart casual?

Myself I'm thinking suited and booted, but with this being my first interview with the civilian world in over 30 years, and over Teams, I have nil experience at all.

Don't want to seem like a dinosaur IYKWIM
 
AytonMews said:
Smart shirt, nothing below the waist
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Be very very careful and aware that you are naked below the waist if you do this.

I was on a teams call where someone had obviously got too comfortable and forgot what they weren't wearing, they then stood up to look out of the window when someone knocked at their door. Disaster.

It wasn't full frontal nudity but very ropey embarrassing pants.
 
I would try and suss out the style of the company if possible. Look at their website, LinkedIn etc and find examples of company events etc and see how folks dress at the company. I am interviewing currently and 99% of the time I gomfor smart open necked shirt. If you are going through a recruiter for internal contact you can always ask them. As a rule of thumb I would always aim to be dressed at the same level or one notch higher (unless the company culture is shirt and tie which is rare these days, there is no need to wear a top hat).

Good luck
 
Agree with Ayton, a decent shirt is fine, or a decent jumper or something. I've never encountered anyone in a tie and suit on Teams.
Ultimately don't stress about it, everyone knows there's no real "rules" for this, and they wouldn't look down on either approach.
 
In my mid 20s I had to do a virtual interview for a well known bank. The problem was I would only be told the time of the interview on the day as the first part of the interview was a telephone "screening" interview.

Anyway, I'd been out to a nu-rave/electro event the night before, and had consumed a fair amount of disco biscuits so was somewhat out of it at 9:30am when they rang me. I managed to stumble my way through the telephone interview and then pulled on my smartest shirt and tie for the online interview. I thought I did okay, all things considered, but I didn't get offered the job.

I'd forgotten all about the neon face paint.
 
Smart Shirt. The only choice is tie or no tie. I would go with no tie myself, but as stated above this depends on the type of job and who it is that will be conducting the interview.
 
Done at least one teams interview and wore Shirt and Tie. Normally on teams/zoom calls just a dress shirt
 
The backdrop is vital too, make sure their is nothing embarrassing visible, like a poster of Huw Edwards or a copy of Nobby’s Notebook on a shelf etc

Good luck 👍
 
I do tons of Teams interviews for teachers. For me, if they can't be arsed to dress smartly for 30 minutes of conversation, then they probably aren't what I'm looking for. My opinion if I'm not sure of the dress code is that I'd rather have someone think "he looks unnecessarily formally dressed" than think "he looks scruffy".

If the interviewer is suited and booted and you rock up casual then you're toast. If it's the other way round then you could always say you weren't sure of the level of formality but wanted to make a good impression (and maybe even remove the tie at that point......I wouldn't advise removing any more garments, unless it's a job with the Tory party?)
 
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