How to Prepare for an Interview

Preparing for an Interview

Each of us must continually engage in hair style trade-offs. Looking your very best all the time is just not realistic, unless you are a TV anchor woman or movie star. Sometimes kids, job, money, time, energy or pleasing someone else on the job limits our ability to choose the right hair styles.

You can’t have it all, but you can prioritize!

Rank these issues in order of importance:

• Spending money on my hair
• Career or job advancement
• Attractiveness to potential partners
• Time to spend on my hair each day
• Pleasing others
• Lots of appointments at the hair salon
• Kids
• My self-esteem
• Getting compliments
• Being fashionable

Career and Job Interview Hair styles

If you’re preparing for an interview, your hair style is just as important as your clothes. Maybe even more important. In a career change or job interview, first impressions are important. Studies have shown that an opinion is formed in the first four seconds. If you don’t make the right impression, your interview skills are not going to matter.“Preparing for an Interview”

I’m married to a management trainer. My hubby Gary spent many years training top-level managers. I sat down with him just recently and asked him what hair style advice he would give my readers in a job or career interview situation. Here are some of his suggestions:

• Look like your interviewer – If you’re interviewing with librarians,you better have some horn rimmed glasses and a bun in your hair. If you’re interviewing for an Wall-Street job, you better have on a suit and conservative haircut. If you are interviewing for an entertainment career, you better have a updo.

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• Never be outside the box – This is not the time to go with the latest spiky hair style, dramatic haircuts or creative hair colors. You never want to stand out . . . you want to look impeccably well-groomed and appropriate. When you appear polished and well-groomed, it often gives the impression of attention to detail, which is definitely in your favor.

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• Never, ever . . .  turn on the sex appeal. Women will hate you . . . and the male prospects will lose respect for your competency or question your intelligence (and probably make a pass instead).

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• Wear conservative, classic hair styles – One length bobs, layered bobs or inverted bobs are good shorter length hair styles. For longer hair, anything that is pulled up or back, such as twists and braids are great, professional looking hair styles for preparing for an interview.

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• Keep your hair colors subdued – Avoid blonde (studies have shown that the dumb blonde image can result in a negative first impression and may even lead to discrimination) and if you’re a bright red-head, you might want to consider toning it down a bit. The safest hair colors in the business world are sandy blonde, light browns and subdued brunettes.

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• Shorter hair styles are better than longer hair styles – Keep your hair style length above the shoulder and preferably terminating just below your ears.

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• Go short, but not too short – Avoid the short-short pixie hair cuts, unless you’re interviewing for a job in the medical profession.

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The bottom line: do not stand out from the crowd and always look very healthful and impeccably groomed. Pay attention to the hair styles you see on your local TV anchor women for inspiration. Their hair styles are very carefully chosen to appeal to your local audience tastes and sensibilities and to avoid looking like dim wits.

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