Skinny/narrow Tie

[Bassn Blvd]

I'm not an English major, but hopefuly you won't be scored on your ability to form sentences using proper sentence structuring. If so, then the tie is the least of your worries.

[.ghoti.]

I went to my lasy job interview wearing a SpongeBob Squaretie. It got a few chuckles, and I got the job.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

My last job interview I was wearing holey jeans, a tattered tshirt, and steel toe logger boots. I got the job and top pay for the position.

[Traveler2586]

My last job interview I was wearing holey jeans, a tattered tshirt, and steel toe logger boots. I got the job and top pay for the position.

And what was the position?

[Raider Nation Fisher]

Journeyman Electrician/ GMAW welder.

[Traveler2586]

Journeyman Electrician/ GMAW welder.

Congratulations on the job. You were dressed to work, you probably beat out someone in a business suit.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

And what was the position?

To clarify a bit more for you. It was midway through my ninth consecutive 16 hour workday hanging pipe/conduit racks and running 6in Rigid Metal Conduit. To hold the 64 runs of 750MCM used to power a plant we had been rewiring at the time. He met me at the jobsite and put me on 3wks later.

[Traveler2586]

To clarify a bit more for you. It was midway through my ninth consecutive 16 hour workday hanging pipe/conduit racks and running 6in Rigid Metal Conduit. To hold the 64 runs of 750MCM used to power a plant we had been rewiring at the time. He met me at the jobsite and put me on 3wks later.

6" Rigid Metal?? What did a stick of that weigh? That's big conduit!! That's the best way to get hired - right off the job.

[slonezp]

My last job interview I was wearing holey jeans, a tattered tshirt, and steel toe logger boots. I got the job and top pay for the position.

We know what happens to you when you wear holey jeans? Was the interviewer a woman? or a man ?

[Root beer]

I met with the Plant President and he said he going meet with a regional president and some other guys tomorrow. He'll talk to them about me and see if they can find a location for me (43 places I could end up at!) and go from there. My starting position would be Assistant Controller. The location will vary. Hopefully know within a week if they got a place for me to start working immediately, if not the Plant President said he'll write me a letter of recommendation for another job if I don't want pursue my previous offer which I really don't.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

I met with the Plant President and he said he going meet with a regional president and some other guys tomorrow. He'll talk to them about me and see if they can find a location for me (43 places I could end up at!) and go from there. My starting position would be Assistant Controller. The location will vary. Hopefully know within a week if they got a place for me to start working immediately, if not the Plant President said he'll write me a letter of recommendation for another job if I don't want pursue my previous offer which I really don't.

What field is this in? Sounds like some kind of manufacturing job.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

6" Rigid Metal?? What did a stick of that weigh? That's big conduit!! That's the best way to get hired - right off the job.

I honestly don't remember off the top of my head. I just know it was heavy as hell. And we were having to use a 46in and 72in pipe wrench with cheater bars to thread it all up. Hopefully in a few more weeks I'll be back to a job similar to that one.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

We know what happens to you when you wear holey jeans? Was the interviewer a woman? or a man ?

A man, but he had brought the female sales lady with him. As they were going to a meeting after talking with me. I dare say she is quite good looking as well. Unfortunately that was before my new found talent.

[Root beer]

What field is this in? Sounds like some kind of manufacturing job.

I did a quick search on Yahoo and found this: http://accountingjobs.lifetips.com/cat/64462/controllers/index.html

Scroll down til you see Assistant Controller. What I would do is pretty much along those lines plus and minus a few things from that list. It's a bakery company and I'll be assign to a bakery to do the accounting work and be responsible for it. Especially when I prove myself and work up to controller. I'm planning to sit for the CMA exam. I Cannot afford go back for the CPA at this time.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

I did a quick search on Yahoo and found this: http://accountingjobs.lifetips.com/cat/64462/controllers/index.html

Scroll down til you see Assistant Controller. What I would do is pretty much along those lines plus and minus a few things from that list. It's a bakery company and I'll be assign to a bakery to do the accounting work and be responsible for it. Especially when I prove myself and work up to controller. I'm planning to sit for the CMA exam. I Cannot afford go back for the CPA at this time.

Ok. I read controller and was thinking you were going to be doing robotics or something of the like. It just struck me as odd that an accountant would be going into robotics or into a manufacturing position. Makes much more sense now. Plus I learned something new.

[flippin and pitchin]

The guy asks a serious question hoping for intelligent responses to give him the best advantage at a potential career change and wants to make the most of this employment opportunity and all you guys can do is joke about it. Pathetic. Wear the thin black tie....but match it with a black fedora hat, white shirt, black suit, black shoes/white socks and sunglasses. If you go to lunch with the human resources person, order a whole chicken and two pieces of plain white toast. Hum Sweet Home Chicago and the job is as good as yours.

[clayton86]

6" Rigid Metal?? What did a stick of that weigh? That's big conduit!! That's the best way to get hired - right off the job.

My last 3 jobs came that way right off the job customers seen me and talked to the boss they were all friends and they kinda just swapped me around. I started selling parts in a local ma and pa auto store fresh out of college with as a ASE certified auto tech. I was there about 2 weeks when Dan the owner pulled me aside and told me I was out of my place there and he sent my resume and transcripts over to Georges his biggest client and that he wanted me to deliver a order over there in the morning. The next day the order was filled I loaded the truck and drove across town and George was waiting for me we had a few words he basically told me him and Dan talked and I started after lunch even though I objected and said I needed to give my two weeks and help out at the store but Dan refused and I started that afternoon at Georges and after a week I was his lead tech cranking out more car repairs then any 2 of his other mechanics could do in the same time respectively speaking I obviously couldn't do head gaskets in the time it took them to do a wheel bearing. I worked there at Georges till I left for basic and when I came back things were slow George couldn't bring me back full time he said he was gonna make some phone calls and get back to me next thing I knew I was interviewing for a position as a diesel and agricultural teachers aide and my name was already on the door they made up there mind with out ever meeting me just going by word of mouth from previous employers.

[Lund Explorer]

I did a quick search on Yahoo and found this: http://accountingjob...lers/index.html

Scroll down til you see Assistant Controller. What I would do is pretty much along those lines plus and minus a few things from that list. It's a bakery company and I'll be assign to a bakery to do the accounting work and be responsible for it. Especially when I prove myself and work up to controller. I'm planning to sit for the CMA exam. I Cannot afford go back for the CPA at this time.

A bakery? Does this mean all the relatives will give up asking you tax questions and start asking for discounted donuts?

[SirSnookalot]

What ever job you get, the opportunities are wide open. I knew a guy that was a young CPA, got a job as a controller for one of the largest scrap yards in the mid-west, it was called Grant Southern at the time. Not many years after he started working there the owners were ready to retire, he bought the company and built it even bigger, Changed the name to Ferrous Processing and Trading ( FPT), he then sold it for some astronomical number.

He wasn't the only CPA I knew that grew very large in a similar manner.

[Bassn Blvd]

The guy asks a serious question hoping for intelligent responses to give him the best advantage at a potential career change and wants to make the most of this employment opportunity and all you guys can do is joke about it. Pathetic. Wear the thin black tie....but match it with a black fedora hat, white shirt, black suit, black shoes/white socks and sunglasses. If you go to lunch with the human resources person, order a whole chicken and two pieces of plain white toast. Hum Sweet Home Chicago and the job is as good as yours.

[SoFlaBassAddict]

Make sure it fits!

Best piece of advice you can get in this thread.

Personally, I don't like the whole skinny tie thing, but whatever you go with, wear it with confidence. Make sure you're comfortable in it. I can't tell you how many times I've had people come into my office, dressed impeccably, and looked totally uncomfortable in the suit they were in. Really is funny when you look at it from my side, but I can just imagine what the poor dude getting interviewed felt like.

[OHIO]

Best piece of advice you can get in this thread.

Personally, I don't like the whole skinny tie thing, but whatever you go with, wear it with confidence. Make sure you're comfortable in it. I can't tell you how many times I've had people come into my office, dressed impeccably, and looked totally uncomfortable in the suit they were in. Really is funny when you look at it from my side, but I can just imagine what the poor dude getting interviewed felt like.

What kind of business do you run?

Do your employees wear suits to work?

[SoFlaBassAddict]

Special Events and Production Company

Some do, some don't. IMO, wearing a suit to an interview is a good thing. Shouldn't matter where you're applying for a job if you're a professional.

[OHIO]

Special Events and Production Company

Some do, some don't. IMO, wearing a suit to an interview is a good thing. Shouldn't matter where you're applying for a job if you're a professional.

I'm not sure if I agree with that.

If I'm applying for a job as a mechanic, I'm not gonna wear a suit. I think that's a little overkill.

This is just my opinion though and I really don't have any room to talk since I have never interviewed someone.

Would you say you look down upon someone who wears a polo over a suit?

If two people have the exact same credentials, but one was wearing a suit, would you hire them?

Just wondering.

[SoFlaBassAddict]

Nope. I wouldn't look down on them at all. I'd much rather look at other things first. Depending on what position they're applying for though, a suit may be required. I generally like to tell the person first what type of attire they'll be wearing most of the time. No matter what it is though, I do expect them to come dressed in proper interview attire. As far as hiring one over the other, that's very hard to say. Depends heavily on the person.