Spehro Pefhany wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:55:41 -0400, Tom Gardner mars@tacks wrote:
On 7/20/2011 7:56 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
I got this in the Email:

Manufacturing Job Fair

Come meet companies with job openings
· Bring your resume
· Dress professionally
· Prepare to interview

Great, cool, groovy. But what does it mean "dress professionally"?
Dress like when I go to report for work? As I do when I've had the
job a while?

Or dress like I'm going to talk to an HR drone who doesn't realize
that manufacturing jobs aren't management, or service, or white collar
- but blue collar? That we don't manage production, but "make
stuff"?

I'll wear something clean, w/o holes, and probably not the BDUs I wear
everywhere else but to job interviews.

Discussing the decline in the US's tech edge, James Niccol once wrote
"It used to be that the USA was pretty good at producing stuff teenaged
boys could lose a finger or two playing with."

I won't consider an applicant if:
-Smells bad
-Dirty clothes
-Unkept appearance
-Pants below the waist
-Drunk or high
-Slouching or other disrespectful body language

I would suggest NOT advertising being a smoker if that's applicable.

I got lucky in this respect - the boss is also a smoker. :-)

Cheers!
Rich