<p>I have never had a job, so I'm not sure what that means. I'm sure everyone's received the invite to the University House reception during Cal Week, and it says "attire is business casual".</p>
<p>Have fun at Berkeley.</p>
<p>That was helpful, so I don't have to wear a dress, but jeans and shorts are verbotin, I'm guessing. My mom's a professional but wears jeans to the office, which is confusing me. I asked her about it and she said these days, because of Silicon Valley, guys are wearing jeans with button down shirts (no t-shirts) or pullovers and women wear just about anything that is comfortable and not totally slutty (her words!).</p>
<p>that's silicon valley's techie/trendy subculture, here in LA, and specially in the Financial District, it would be very bad to do that. Business casual is slacks, dress shoes, long-sleve/polo shirt with collar for guys. No tie. Girls is a nice dress, not so short skirt, and a blouse (no big cleavage!) with sleeves or sleevless if wearing a sports coat or something similar. Slacks are always in. Not too much jewelry, keep it conservative. </p>
<p>I'm going, btw. =)</p>
<p>this gives you the breakdown:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.urel.berkeley.edu/newstudents/%5B/url%5D">http://www.urel.berkeley.edu/newstudents/</a></p>
<p>you will hear about business casual aka. monkey suit a lot when you begin internships and go to fancy events.</p>