Taking a chance at a job interview

[Aldisimo]

I've got a job interview tomorrow. I know that I'm not the best qualified candidate for this position, but I probably have a decent chance.

I really want to go kilted.

I have laid out an outfit built around a bifurcated garment, as well as an outfit built around my USAKilts American Heritage casual [just in case I chicken out in the morning].

If I go kilted to the interview but don't get the job, I'll never know whether it's because of my performance at the interview or my dress.

[TheBlueCow]

Good luck with the interview, hope you get the job. Definitely let us know their reaction to the kilt if you go through with it... I'm very interested in what their response would be.

[Livingston]

I would suggest wearing the dreaded p@n7s. In this job market you don't want to lose out because you work a kilt. If you do decide to wear your kilt, let me know where you're interviewing. I might just have a shot at it.

[MacKay71]

I don't know, ... kilt or job. you could always tell him you wear a kilt after you get the job. Good luck either way.

[Bugbear]

Good luck.

[David Dubh]

You could play it safe and wear pants. On the other hand you could wear the kilt and if you don't get the job claim discrimination.
Either way best of luck and let us know

[Riverkilt]

If its a job where self-confidence is important go for the kilt.

If any of the owners/managers have Celtic names go for the kilt.

You don't really wanna work for anyone who can't see through/past the kilt.

A fine way to test your potential employer....

Its also you who'll decide if you want to work there as well as they who decide if you're the man for the position.

Don't forget to go to the rest room there if you haven't already. Restroom conditions will tell you more about a company than most anything else.

Ron
Who wore a kilt to a board of directors selection interview and was chosen for that volunteer position.

[BEEDEE]

Ron
Who wore a kilt to a board of directors selection interview and was chosen for that volunteer position.

Like Ron, I went kilted to my interview for Executive Director for our local Community College Foundation. I live in a small, rural, conservative county in North Carolina. No comment about the kilt at the time. Got the job and now everyone in the county recognizes me. It's a great opener when I go talk about giving to the Foundation.

Brian

[Mipi]

You will certainly be noticed among other candidates if kilted. Sometimes this is what you need to get some advantage. But.... you never know. Whichever you choose, go with full confidence.

Good luck! Will have you in my mind at least a bit.

[Roderick]

While not quite the same thing, I made the decision to go to the first interview of my professional career in a Hawaiian shirt, a pair of jeans, sneakers, and a black blazer. I figured that I was never likely to wear a tie in the classroom, so it would be hypocritical for me to wear one to my interview.

Towards the end of the interview, Barb (head of HR) asked, "And what do you think you would bring to the district and to the school where you would teach if we hired you?" I paused a moment before replying: "Well, you may have noticed I'm not wearing a tie..." Then I launched into my personal philsophical teaching BS about the value of relationships, personality, and unconventional approaches and thinking in the opening of young minds.

As I was leaving, I overheard Barb's assistant ask, "So what was he like?"

She replied, "Oh, he's going to be wonderful!"

I got a message two days later telling me to come in for orientation, and I've now been with the district for six years.

My advice is to be you. If that means going kilted, go kilted.