An article in USA Today spoke about candidates for jobs wearing jeans, purple sweat suits and spike heels or sneakers. Other applicants weren't afraid to show pierced body parts and spiked hair. Still others chewed gum or showed up in rumpled clothes or with their pants falling down. One recruiter even told a candidate with his trousers down below his hips, to "Pull your pants up." According to the article, the outlandish dress costs some candidates the job.
Read more here.
Other links:
http://interview.monster.ca/7117_en-CA_p1.asp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6xufGeyaMU
Thanks to:
Lynn Marie Caissie
Human Resources Professional
Brilliant at creating equity and order out of chaos
