Tomorrow I have my first ever job interview, and I am a little bit worried about my appearance.
I'm 16 and have a very limited wardrobe and that could be an issue.
I also have a pierced nose, and stretched ears.
Help?
Thanks!
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Recommended Answer:Dress as nice as possible, lose the earrings and crap in your face. Yes, they would probably hire you naked but leave an impression. Your representing yourself and your family. I would not wear the face stuff to work either. It's about dignity at work I guess.
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- Dress neat and clean. I'd lose the nose piercing as I don't believe your allowed to wear it at work. I think ears with out anything in look worse but wear something plain.
Just don't wear your jeans down to your knees and your boxers and butt out. Try for a shirt other than a tee if you have one. Make sure nothing vulgar is on it if you have only T-shirts. Think about how your parents would like you to dress and lean toward that more than you normally do. Just do the best you can with what you have. Mc D's hires lots of teenagers and they under stand I'm sure. If you have obviously tried you should do fine.
Remember the way you speak also counts. Dealing with customers is often difficult so they want someone who isn't speaking all slang or using the F word. This parts really important.
Everyone knows that the customer is NOT always right but you have to show that you can pretend you believe they are.
Good luck! This job is the beginning of the work path you'll follow all your life. A job is a job no matter where you are. Its not supposed to be fun but it can be much easier if you have the attitude you will be giving it the best you have. Do that and you will soon move on to the job you prefer.
**Lea threw in some great ideas, read them carefully.
- about your stretched ears & nose piercing -- your best bet would have been to check out other employees in advance to see if anyone else had them. personally, i think stretched ears are a real big "no" on hiring someone, especially if they're going to be dealing with the public. and McDonald's tries to present a family friendly environment & some parents would object to the stretched ears. if you can, replace your nose piercing with something tiny and unobtrusive, and hope that the manager doesn't mind the ear adornments.
i used to hire people for a Bath and Body Works shop & you would NOT believe what people would show up wearing, or how they sometimes smelled. seriously. like they hadn't bathed for a week. and the clothes --.girls in house shoes, in flannel pajama pants, *barefoot*, dirty hair, hair in curlers, dirty dreads (there's dreads and then there's *scary* dreads -- this girl's dreads had miscellaneous items twisted up in them -- a coin, a ring, bits of ribbon. i mean, really. it looked like the dreads snuck out in the middle of the night & hunted things to wear. my fellow manager *swore* she saw a stick of gum in there.)
but i wander -- anyway. be clean. have a breath mint on the way in. wear clean clothes that aren't all wrinkled up. you shouldn't look like you either ran through your closet & let things happen as they may, or like you got dressed by picking up clothes from the floor.
there are two good ways to dress for a job interview. the first is to dress as though you already work there. going by the McD's near me, that would mean a polo style shirt and dark jeans or slacks. the other way is to dress for the job *over* the job you want to have. in McD's that'd probably mean wearing a regular shirt and a tie and slacks. if you don't have anything like that, wear a plain t-shirt and your nicest (not ripped, torn, pre-aged, or frayed) jeans.
oh -- and make sure your hands are clean, especially under your nails. what you're trying to do is present a picture of a person that the interviewer sees as already fitting in with the work environment.
but most importantly, look the manager in the eye, answer the questions completely (sometimes they toss in questions like, describe yourself in three words (don't do what my daughter did and say, pink, bunny, unicorn) -- some good words are loyal, honest, i try to communicate well (sometimes you can sneak in extra words), unflappable, calm, and energetic. (probably shouldn't use those last two together.) and at the end of the interview, say "thanks for your time." and shake hands.
good luck
- I'm sure they'd hire you if you showed up naked.
