<p>Really? Wow, I always thought that interviews were really formal. Do most people come in casually dressed too?</p>
<p>Avoid jeans. Dress neatly. No reason to <em>really</em> dress up unless you're meeting a lawyer in his skyscraper office building, etc. </p>
<p>I just returned from doing an interview, a half hour ago, in a conference cubicle at the local library. We both dressed casually.</p>
<p>my interviewer wore jeans so there u go. (and i did too)</p>
<p>Must have been outside the United States, in a place where jeans have different status.</p>
<p>What puzzles me is how interviewers expect 'thoughtful' answers to questions like 'why do you want to go to Harvard', and yet to do that you would have to have prepared it beforehand, and therefore it's not really as natural, and may come across as rehearsed.. and yet may well be the truth..</p>
<p>don't you get jitters during the interview day? no puking (jk)? how did you prepare?</p>
<p>gad,all i know about the Iraq war is well... iraq vs. US...</p>
<p>There aren't rules for interviewers about this kind of thing. I tell my interviewees to wear whatever they wore to school, because I usually see them in the early evening. If your interviewer doesn't say anything about it on the phone, go business casual, but if s/he says, "Don't worry about it, I'll be in jeans," then you can wear jeans, too.</p>
<p>Well I'm no stickler about these things myself, but why risk it? </p>
<p>There's no percentage. Better to be slightly overdressed than slightly underdressed. No interviewer will hold it against you if you seem to have given extra care to your appearance, believe me. </p>
<p>I wouldn't show up on Northstarmom's doorstep in jeans and a t-shirt if I were you!</p>
<p>Although its dated, there is still a grain of truth to Andrew Carnegie's advice about how to get ahead in business:</p>
<p>"Always wear your Sunday suit."</p>
<p>byerly, i love andrew canregie and did a 90 page AP US History thesis paper on him (talked about it during my interview)</p>
<p>go carnegie!</p>
<p>Another of my favorite Canegie aphorisms: "The man who dies rich dies disgraced."</p>
<p>yay for the gospel of wealth</p>