Beard in interview.... bad?

[dentwannabe]

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Do you think having facial hair is impolite or something in an interview? I remember some admissions guy saying something about coming clean shaven. I mean, I'm not talking about 5 o'clock shadow dirty face. Obviously, that is wrong. I'm talking about a clean sort of beard. What do you guys feel?

 

[mynameistino]

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Do you think having facial hair is impolite or something in an interview? I remember some admissions guy saying something about coming clean shaven. I mean, I'm not talking about 5 o'clock shadow dirty face. Obviously, that is wrong. I'm talking about a clean sort of beard. What do you guys feel?

just chop it off just incase some interviewer doesnt like it

 

[Adam_W]

Here is some of the best interview advice I've heard - If you have to ask "Is this okay?" it probably isn't. A beard could work, but it would be just as easy to cut it for the interview and wait a few weeks for it to grow back. Actually I can related - I normally have fairly long hair, but I chose to cut it short for my interviews, even though most people I know say it looks better long. Good luck!

 

[1992Corolla]

cut the stupid neck rat for a couple of months. When you're in you can go back to being awesome again. 😀

 

[deejay]

I don't think it really matters. I've been shaving my head all through college. people told me that I shouldn't because it looked unprofessional. I had no problems getting into school and I found all of the interviews to be fairly informal.

Also, a lot of professors that interviewed me had beards.

 

[lindandy]

I have had a goatee for that last 7 years and it was not a problem in my interviewing process. In a few of the more casual interviews I even asked them about it because I was the only one at any of my interviews with facial hair. I was told as long as its well trimmed its not an issue. They want to make sure you'll fit in with their students many who did have facial hair. be yourself, let them judge you on who you are.

 

[Gulch]

sell out. then grow it back.

 

[Comet208]

It comes down to the image you want to portray. See how it looks on you and what it makes you look like. Beards are tricky, they can make you anywhere from lazy and dirty, to manly, to philosophical, to old. they can make you look even like a terrorist!!!
I normally walk around with scruffies but since i am from middle east, that could totally mislead others. I had to wake up at 6 am and SCRAPE my face with MACh 3 and then an electric shaver for 30 min (I am the type that needs to shave twice a day... so regardless of what i do, i always have scruffies).
Ad coms at dental schools are very conservative, so when in doubt go clean shaven.

 

[hockeydentist]

I have had a goatee for that last 7 years and it was not a problem in my interviewing process. In a few of the more casual interviews I even asked them about it because I was the only one at any of my interviews with facial hair. I was told as long as its well trimmed its not an issue. They want to make sure you'll fit in with their students many who did have facial hair. be yourself, let them judge you on who you are.

how did that work for yah, did you get into dental school?

 

[786mine]

This ones for guys mainly

Do you think having facial hair is impolite or something in an interview? I remember some admissions guy saying something about coming clean shaven. I mean, I'm not talking about 5 o'clock shadow dirty face. Obviously, that is wrong. I'm talking about a clean sort of beard. What do you guys feel?

i don't see anything wrong with it. if you've had it for a while, why not be true to your self and present who you are. ofcourse i could get it trimmed if i were you. but just for the sake of getting in, i wouldn't recommend cutting it. why do you have it? just lazy to shave or religious reasons?

 

[lindandy]

how did that work for yah, did you get into dental school?

I was accepted into 4 schools of the five interviews I attended. The beard makes me look my age, without it I look like I am 19. If you look good, go with it.