While driving to a job interview yesterday I heard some interview “advice” on the radio. How relevant! Turns out someone had surveyed a bunch of hiring employers and 50% of them said that many people were not dressing professionally when they came in for interviews. You’d think in these times of high unemployment and few job openings people would try to do their best to impress, yet some people were actually going to the interview wearing flip-flops with their business suits! As I was laughing at the visual I sent up a quick prayer that anyone else interviewing for the Librarian position I am trying to get shows up inappropriately dressed. Even in flip-flops.
A girl can hope!
Change Is Hard 
February 25, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Good luck with the interview! We’ll be pulling for you!
Flip Flops to an interview? Crazy……
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February 25, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Hope it went well for you!
I’ve been on many interview committees, my biggest pet peeve is someone complaining about their last job. I hate whiners, don’t want to work with a whiner.
I have a student that wears flip flop everyday, all year long….she’s going to be one of THOSE people! LOL.
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February 25, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Several years ago when I interviewed for a job with the county working at the animal shelter, I noticed the same thing. People were showing up dressed in jeans, (and not nice, new, clean jeans even) and T-shirts and tennis shoes. It was too cold here for flip flops though. One of the things that was mentioned when I was hired was that my appearance was one of the things that caught their attention first.
Pretty darn sad, is all I can say. People are just plain crazy. My husband has an interview for a possible job tomorrow, and I can guarantee that he won’t be sporting flip flops. LOL
I hope that all goes well for you and that you find yourself in the library again soon. I always love your tales from the library!
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February 28, 2010 at 2:28 pm
At the small company I used to work for, we used to have a good laugh every time we had an opening for a receptionist. They were the worst–what they wore, what they said, what they expected,how they filled out their applications (or refused to). Although, of course, software engineers, we didn’t care if they showed up in jeans and flip-flops; that’s pretty much par for the course.
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February 28, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Hope you get the job! If not, a more perfect one will come along…
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February 28, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Thanks everyone. I haven’t heard any news and I thought I might at least get a hint from some of my references if they were contacted. That’s not good news. But it’s only been a couple days…
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March 1, 2010 at 8:40 am
After living 2 years in Australia, I have a different view. Flip-flops RULE! And a place where no one cared if you wore them would be a good place.
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