I'd go with a sleeveless blouse. Sleeveless so you don't have the discomfort of sleeves bunching up in your jacket. No cami so you have the option to take off your jacket if needed.
Technically a skirt suit is more formal than a pant suit, but I don't think most people notice and/or care. At least with a pant suit, you don't have to worry about the hose/no hose question.
Proper suit jacket, the one that was made to go with your skirt/pants. You don't want to stick out for being the only one who put looking fancy over looking professional.
Honestly I'd love an answer to this one. If you want to play it safe I'd say just go with hose that matches your skin tone. This is what I usually do since I'm short and pant suits make me look like a museum tour guide.
Nobody cares. (I'm assuming you mean for the shirt)
As much as I hate to say this (because I don't believe that the purpose of makeup is to make other people like looking at us 🙄), probably regular makeup. That is if you wear it. I wouldn't recommend suddenly raiding Sephora and Pinteresting the crap out of your face.
As long as they are trimmed, neat, clean, etc then nobody cares.
Agreed, if your hair is clean and not covering your face then I don't see why anyone should have a problem with it, but I'm probably not the best person to answer this one for you.
When I got to the "Professional Etiquette of Leather v. Metal Watch Straps" section of this thread, I had to check to see if i'd accidentally clicked pre-allo.
Thanks lunalight. Pls anyone else to take a swing at my qstns?
Light grey rocks with a navy suit imo.
Not that I went on my first 8 interviews with my hair "down and loose" or anything like that
, but, uh, what are the acceptable hairstyles for someone with long hair? A plain ponytail feels very casual to me.
Not that I went on my first 8 interviews with my hair "down and loose" or anything like that
I'm applying in IM, if it matters...
I was actually at a Brooks Bros store recently and I remarked to the salesman that I did not want a button down collar as it was too sporty for me, and he replied that the button down collar was more formal than the spread collar. Am I taking crazy pills or was he?
A bun, braid, twist, literally anything but down.Not that I went on my first 8 interviews with my hair "down and loose" or anything like that
Not a fan of their shirts?
Is a camel/dark khaki wool skirt suit with conservative black top too casual? Or standout-ish? Anytime I see fellows touring the hospital on interviews the whole group is in black or navy, so even camel feels like a stretch.
I want to have some variation in my rotation so that interviews doing get too boring or similar for me, at least I will feel like I switched something up so I can keep them straight. As a chick, I often think about what I wore somewhere to jog my memory about what went down...
lol, I do the opposite. I tried to stand out slightly with my choice in a different color suit. Black suit is too meh and too formal for my style. I didn't want to look like 100% of the crowd, but wanted to stand out in my interviews in both my choice of suit and persona. I do recommend wearing a watch, so you can track time. Sometimes, you can go over the time limit, and I had to warn my interviewer about it, so that I can move onto the next interview before I'm late.
This has to be incredibly offputting to the interviewer.
Not at all, instead of talking for 30 minutes, we talk for like 40-50 minutes. So I only had like 5-10 minutes to run out of the door and find the next building. I'm sure the interviewer is understandable. If anything, the interviewer just enjoy talking to you, and didn't care to check for the time. I would recommend coming to your 1st interviewer early, because sometimes, he/she may call you in ahead of time. Then, you have the opportunity to engage in the conversation with more time. That said, I don't check my watch constantly in the interview. I usually peeked when they ask "if I have any questions for them" so I can gauge how many questions I can actually ask. lol Then, again, I am talking about medical school interviews, so I'm not sure if it is the same for residency interview.
It isn't the job of the interviewee to be the time police and checking your watch is a bad look. And yeah, residency interviews =/= med school interviews.
I know it isn't our job. So how would you know when to stop talking if your next interview begins in the next 5 minutes without a watch? Are we supposed to rely on the interviewer to stop the conversation? Not trying to put you on the spot here, just wanted to figure out what you recommend. @SouthernSurgeon I guess I didn't have that luxury :/
See the bolded.
In my experience (2/3 of the way through my interview season in IM), I haven't had any problems with this. There's been a nice combination of interviewers being mindful of the time, and people whose job it is to knock on the door at the appropriate time and bring you to your next interview.
Yes. As we said, keeping to the schedule is not your job.
