Dear Tyganae,


As an Image Consultant with more than 30 years experience, I have discovered that the way you look and dress announces the outcome other people can expect from you. It also announces how you feel about yourself. Unfortunately, human beings are hard-wired to judge other people. It comes from our caveman days where survival depended upon judging and sizing up situations and people.



If you want to be considered for a job, you had better stand out from the competition. Most of the other people applying for that job will look experienced, so you had better show up looking experienced. If you look like you've never worn a suit before, you might as well have a label on your head that says "greenhorn, guaranteed to waste your time because I'm inexperienced." Practice wearing a suit before you go on the interview. If you don't it will be obvious to everyone that you're not really used to dressing up. You're still just a greenhorn college kid.



Studies as well as practice have shown for years that when interviewing candidates with equal expertise, the job offers almost always go to the applicant who is professionally dressed and groomed.