DIYbanter - Manufacturing Job Fair "Dress Professionally"???

On Jul 20, 5:56*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"?

fnord.

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

-- *
pyotr filipivich.

Since it's the HR people that will be the majority of the folks you'll
be meeting, a suit and tie would NOT be excessive, even though you
won't be working in one. At least a good pair of slacks, not jeans, a
button-up shirt and real shoes, not flip-flops, althletic shoes or
work boots. A lot of these events just collect resumes, they're not
actual hiring events with interviewing, but there's no reason to
offend the gatekeepers. Ask yourself, would you hire you, if you look
in the mirror? Looking like a bum or '60s commune refugee will NOT
impress. A sure way to get the resume inserted in the circular file.

If you have skills in a number of areas, making up different resumes
to emphasize them may get you some further interest, HR droids look
for buzzwords and phrases even though they may not know what they
mean. In some cases, they scan the pile into a computer and only pull
the ones that have the desired words out.

Stan