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    What to Wear To Your Job Interview: How to Dress for Your Job Interview and What NOT to Wear if You Really Want the Job!
    What to Wear To Your Job Interview: How to Dress for Your Job Interview and What NOT to Wear if You Really Want the Job!
    What to Wear To Your Job Interview: How to Dress for Your Job Interview and What NOT to Wear if You Really Want the Job!
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    What to Wear To Your Job Interview: How to Dress for Your Job Interview and What NOT to Wear if You Really Want the Job!

    By Tonya Wells

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    Learn One of the Biggest Secrets Hiring Managers and Recruiters Have Never Told You!

    Have you been going to interview after interview, but you never get that elusive job offer? It might not be your lack of experience holding you back!

    How a Candidate is Dressed ALWAYS Affects the Outcome of Their Interview.

    Not sometimes – always! Your appearance is always graded either consciously or subconsciously by your interviewer.

    This Book Will Show You What You Should NEVER Wear to Your Interview!

    Tonya Wells has interviewed thousands of individuals for job openings while working for some of the top staffing companies in the U.S.,, and she now owns her own highly successful Retained Search firm. The individuals she has recruited for her clients have ranged from recent graduates from college to people with thirty or more years of experience. And many of these candidates struggled with the same problem – their appearance, and many of them didn’t even know it was affecting the outcome of their interview.

    The Reason You’re Not Getting Job Offers May Come Down to Your Appearance!

    Candidates can often undermine their own efforts at getting a job simply by overlooking very simple basics about their appearance. Personal grooming habits that may seem like no-brainers to some candidates are habits that other candidates have never even considered might be affecting them negatively during the interview process.

    Other candidates completely undermine their chances at getting the job by their choice of clothing. What one candidate automatically knows they should NEVER wear to an interview, another candidate may wear thinking there is nothing wrong with it.

    This Guide Will Spell Out in Detail What You Should and Should NEVER Wear to a Job Interview.

    And that’s really the problem, isn’t it? What you should and should not wear to an interview has never been spelled out in detail. It’s about time someone actually spelled out the unspoken Interview Dress Code rules!

    This is the no nonsense guide to help you ensure you are dressed as successfully as you can possibly be for your interview and what might keep you from getting hired if you wear it. So read up, make the corrections, and get ready to blow the socks off your next interviewer!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTonya Wells
    Release dateMay 16, 2013
    ISBN9781301458684
    What to Wear To Your Job Interview: How to Dress for Your Job Interview and What NOT to Wear if You Really Want the Job!
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    Tonya Wells

    Tonya Wells - President/CEO, Ally Resource Group Retained Search | Executive Search | Sales | IT | Career Coach | Resume Critiques & Makeovers | Blogger at Blogaboutjobs.com | Author of Self-Help Books Founder of Ally Resource Group, a 100% Woman-Owned Business. I have 18+ years of sales / recruiting experience in a variety of industries. My firm provides retained searches, career coaching, and resume critiques and makeovers. My first book is now available on Amazon, and will be available on most other E-readers within the next few weeks. My new book, "What to Wear to a Job Interview - How to Dress for Your Job Interview and What NOT to Wear if You Really Want the Job!" is published in Kindle E-book format. This book is great for anyone preparing for a job interview. And, it will be especially helpful to anyone who has been successfully getting interviews, but can never seem to get a job offer and can't seem to figure out why they are not getting offers. It may be as simple as making some quick fixes to your appearance, personal grooming habits, and your interview attire. My clients and my candidates are my passion! I work with my clients to understand their organization's pain, and goals to find talent, particularly passive candidates. As a career advisor, I work with job hunters to assist with interview preparation, find new and more satisfying career paths, and I work with VC start-ups and entrepreneurs to assist them with developing and executing their business strategy. Recruiting nationwide, my company's reputation of integrity, credibility, and ethics ensures that all searches are handled in the strictest of confidence and professionalism. Many of our searches focus on Managers, Directors, VP's, and C-Levels. The "secret sauce" to the success of our firm partially lays in the fact that IT TAKES A SUCCESSFUL EXECUTIVE TO RECRUIT A SUCCESSFUL EXECUTIVE! We have built a successful track record delivering superior results for clients ranging from VC-backed start-ups, Private Equity (PE)-owned portfolio companies, Privately-Held companies, and Fortune 100+. We network for leads, recruit/qualify candidates, develop candidate profiles, coordinate the interview process, handle travel arrangements, conduct reference checks, and assist with salary negotiations. We then provide clients with resumes, candidate profiles, and status reports as required. I can be contacted at careers@allyresourcegroup.com for questions or comments about my book, for scheduling career coaching calls, for help with resume critiques or makeovers, or to help you find your next rock star employee. Call me when you're ready for your next hire or career move! My Specialties: Retained Recruiter, Retained Search, Executive Search Consultant, Executive Searches, Headhunter, CEO, C-Level Executive Management, President, Vice President, IT, Technology, Marketing, Sales, Business Development, Travel & Hospitality, Retail, Apparel, HR, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Wholesale Distribution - See more at: http://blogaboutjobs.com/?page_id=14#sthash.rKb70IiU.dpuf

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      What to Wear To Your Job Interview - Tonya Wells

      What to Wear To Your Job Interview

      How to Dress for Your Job Interview and What NOT to Wear if You Really Want the Job!

      By Tonya L. Wells

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      At Smashwords

      Text Copyright 2013 Tonya L. Wells

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      Smashwords Edition, License Notes:

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      To my husband, kids, mom and dad; for always believing I could do anything I set my mind to and for all their support along the way.

      * * *

      Who Should Read This Book?

      I have been recruiting individuals for over eighteen years. I’ve interviewed and recruited candidates for positions for the corporations where I’ve worked, and I’ve worked as a third party recruiter working for staffing and consulting companies.

      The individuals I interviewed and recruited have ranged from entry level students from college campuses to experienced hires. I’ve interviewed thousands of candidates, hired hundreds, and I know inside and out what hiring managers look for in candidates they interview based on their feedback of the thousands of interviews that have been conducted for open positions I’ve worked.

      Hiring managers are looking for someone who not only is qualified for their open position, but who also has a certain ‘look’. They want someone who will fit in with their other employees and someone who will be a go-getter and hard worker.

      How a candidate is dressed ALWAYS affects the outcome of their interview. Not sometimes – always! If a candidate shows up looking like a rock star in their power suit, and they are up against someone equally qualified who came to their interview dressed like a slob or looking like they put no effort into their appearance, the rock star will get the job every time.

      Your appearance sends out non-verbal clues for recruiters about how much effort you put into everything you do. If you put forth less effort into your appearance, an assumption is automatically made that you might not be a go-getter. The assumption might also be made that you are lazy or have trouble paying attention to the details.

      I am sometimes amazed at the ways a candidate can undermine their own efforts at getting a job simply by overlooking very simple basics about their appearance. Personal grooming habits that may seem like no-brainers to some candidates are habits that other candidates have never bothered to master.

      Other candidates completely undermine their chances at getting the job by their choice of clothing. What one candidate automatically knows they should never wear to an interview, another candidate may wear thinking there is nothing wrong with it.

      Any job seeker from entry level to upper level management will benefit from reading this book. In this book, I will tell you exactly what you should NEVER wear to an interview, and I will list out better alternatives for you.

      After reading this book, if you follow and apply the advice I give to you, you should have no trouble making a great first impression on your interviewer every single time!

      With a few exceptions – Directors, Vice Presidents and C-Levels will find little here that they do not already know from their first-hand experience interviewing candidates for openings within their own organizations. However, they will find useful suggestions for coaching candidates how to improve their appearance in job interviews.

      I encourage you to read through the Job Classifications listed in Chapter 1 to understand the specific types of jobs that I address in this book. Dress codes for various jobs vary greatly, and it is impossible to cover them all in just one book. I discuss dress codes for the most common types of jobs with the exception of the dress codes within our Armed Forces.

      This book was written to assist job seekers who are running into the proverbial ‘brick wall’ when it comes to interviews. Someone who has encountered at least one of the following problems will benefit most from reading this book.

      • You have an interview this week, and you don’t have a clue what to wear to it.

      • You can get the initial interview appointment. You show up and think you have done pretty well. But, you don’t get that second interview or that elusive offer of employment.

      • You have a solid background and a decent amount of experience. You can do this job with your eyes shut. You still get no second interviews or job offers.

      • You are an older candidate who has done the exact same job for many years. You keep asking yourself if age discrimination is keeping you from advancing to the next step of the interview process or if it is a different issue.

      • You prepared for the interview for a week. You researched the company and made sure you could answer any question about the company the interviewer might ask you. You nailed every question but still, no offer.

      • You arrived for your interview 15 minutes early. It started right on time, and it was over in 15 minutes. You barely got enough of the interviewer’s time to talk about yourself. What happened? Why were you ushered out the door so quickly?

      • You have averaged two interviews a week for the past two months, and you have yet to receive an offer.

      • You have your Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree, AND every certification known to man (or woman) AND you have so much experience you could do this job with your eyes shut. How much more qualified could they possibly want you to be?! Yet, you have no job offer.

      Does anything here sound familiar? If so, you could probably benefit from reading this book. If even one of these items sounds familiar to you, it is possible that you may be blowing your interview all by yourself, despite all the hard work it took to find a job opening that you feel is a great fit for you, despite all your prior experience, despite all the effort and time it took to get the right degree or industry certification, and despite all of the work you’ve done to prepare for your interview.

      The root of all your job interview problems might be that you don’t know how to dress appropriately for your interview.

      I know, I know…you know how to dress yourself. You’ve had a job before, and this is not your first rodeo. But the companies with whom you’ve interviewed in the past might have different expectations in what they expect their employees to wear since the last time you were looking for a job.

      Dress codes change from time to time depending upon the state of the economy. When the economy is good, dress codes tend to relax. Jobs are plentiful and candidates are in shorter supply because so many people are working. Employers tend to relax dress codes in hopes of enticing candidates to come work in their more relaxed work environments.

      When times are tough and jobs are in short supply, there are plenty of candidates on the market all trying to find jobs. During these times, candidates tend to wear suits more often to interviews trying to outdo other candidates in appearance. Dress codes in work forces tend to tighten up as many companies believe stricter dress codes help get higher quality work out of their employees.

      It can be hard to tell if you should wear something that is business casual or your power suit. And, this book will help you figure out which one you should wear, and it might help you get that elusive job offer.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Who Should Read This Book?

      Chapter 1 – How This Book Is Organized

      Chapter 2 – First Impressions Count – There Are No Do Overs

      The 5 Second Impression

      What Is the Point of the Dress Code?

      Chapter 3 – Personal Grooming Essentials

      Chapter 4 - Proper Shirts, Ties, and Jackets for an Interview

      Chapter 5 - Slacks, Dresses, and Skirts That Say I’m Successful!

      Chapter 6 - Shoes That Complete Your Look

      Chapter 7 – Items to Bring with You to the Interview

      Chapter 8 – Putting it All Together to Present Your Best You!

      How To Find Out a Company’s Dress Code Before the Interview

      What Recruiters and Hiring Managers Are Looking For During That First 5 Second Impression:

      Appendix A – Interview Dress Code Checklist

      Checklist #1 - Personal Grooming Essentials

      Checklist #2 - Proper Shirts, Ties,

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