40-year-old woman wears a suit to director-level job interview, HR tells them they didn't like they wore a suit: 'I didn't get the job'

What should you wear to a job interview?

There are all sorts of advice out there about how you should present yourself in a job setting. What you should wear, what you should say, how you should comport yourself. Every little detail gets scrutinized, so they say. You want to make sure you're making the best impression you could possibly make, and that can come down to details. But sometimes these details get in the way of the bigger picture. At the end of the day, it's all about your credentials. If you don't have the goods, then you don't have the goods. You shouldn't get too bogged down in the way that people are perceiving you, or else it'll be all that you think about. But sometimes hiring managers don't have the right amount of tact, and let some things slide that they shouldn't let slide.

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I wore a suit to a job interview.

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Commenters commiserated with this job seeker.

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There are plenty of ways that prejudice shows up in the hiring process. We all have internal biases that we should do our best to acknowledge and get in front of. We might subconsciously think that some people will be worse or better at certain jobs just based on the way that they look. And this is not a truthful or good thing to lean into. It just reinforces the inequality that already exists in our society. So when we see that in action, we should do our best to speak up about it. Especially when it happens to us. That's what happened to this woman who tried to look her best for a job interview, and was quickly told that her best wasn't right. She dressed to impress, but left the hiring manager feeling like she wasn't the right fit. The problem was that there was a deep double standard going on here about the way we dress in the workplace. She was left feeling like she was being skipped over for a job just because of the way she looked. Nobody wants to feel like they're losing something on a technicality. Keep scrolling to see what happened here and see what you think about it.
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