I looked at some of the photographs that were posted on a Web site showing job fairs. I was totally amazed and appalled to see that most of the students who visited the booths were dressed like total slobs. If they were expecting to make a bad impression on the recruiters and really did not want a job, then they were dressed exactly right for that job fair. If you are applying for a laborer or outside job, then it is probably appropriate to dress down. However, if you are applying for a professional job working inside, or searching for business contacts and clients, then I suggest you dress in a more presentable manner.

You attend these job fairs to network. When you network with a company you would like to do work for, you should dress in a manner that would impress instead of depress those staffing the booth. The recruiters at these booths are usually dressed pretty well. Why? Because they are trying to impress you! What makes these students feel that they are in such great demand that they too don’t need to dress appropriately to impress the recruiters? As a business owner, you must set the standard and image for your company.

It is better to be overdressed than underdressed.

If I were hiring people for a job or to consult on a project (and I have hired many people in my career), I would not hire anyone looking like a slob. What is the reason for that? It is because they, in all probability, will perform the work on the job the same way … as slobs. Their work will be sloppy. Their office will look sloppy. They will present a sloppy image to our customers. That’s why!

Remember this: Slobs will not get the good jobs or contracts. Dress is very important. Dress appropriately to make a good impression. Do it right!

David Hale, Ph.D., PCC, a Corporate Performance Consultant, University Professor and Professional Certified Coach, is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and seminar leader. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the DHI-Communication. For more than 20 years, Dr. Hale has trained professional coaches, ministers, clinicians, executives, teachers, government agents and private individuals using the coaching methods and skills that he has designed.

David is the author of The High Performance Entrepreneur: 12 Essential Strategies to Supercharge Your Startup Business published by iUniverse in 2008. His newest book, Straight Talk From Corporate America’s 10 Most Requested Speakers and Trainers, is written with the intent to make his personal and business success skills and principles widely available. David’s work and books have been featured on national television, radio, and print media.

Dave has twenty-three years’ experience in design and delivery of training programs for public, private, government and non-profit centers. He also has twenty years’ experience in coaching and training individuals and groups in state and federal agencies, and profit and non-profit corporate settings as well as coaching and counseling individuals on a private, fee-for-service, basis. After twenty years of developing and leading coach training programs David founded DHI-Communication, an international coaching and training consultancy, specializing in communication principles. Dave is widely regarded as one of the top business coaches for Web 2.0 Entrepreneurs. He can be contacted at http://www.HiPerEntrepreneur.com or DrDave@HiperEntrepreneur.com.

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