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What to Wear for Informal and Informational Interviews
Updated10/03/2022
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What’s the best way to dress for informational/informal interviews that may or may not lead to “real” job interviews? Should you play it safe and wear a suit, or is it appropriate to dress a bit on the casual side?

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Emergency Reader Mail: What to Wear to an Informal Interview?
Updated11/01/2018
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2018 Update: We still think this is a great discussion of what to wear to an informal interview — but you may also want to check out our more recent discussion of what to wear to an informational interview. We haven’t answered this kind of question in a while, so we thought we’d answer reader…