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1 month agoMorning Docket: 04.21.26 - Above the Law
Clients still expect lawyers to dress formally.
COVID-19 pandemic, workwear has relaxed, and the playbook for dressing for success has changed. It's caused a lot of uncertainty-but former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama shared her styling tips on how to dress for the job. "I do not pick something that doesn't make me feel good," Obama recently said in conversation with Tracee Ellis Ross about her new book, The Look. "I never wear something to follow a trend. I wear things that make me feel beautiful. That is probably the first criterion."
You finally snagged an interview for your dream job, so obviously you've studied the company, and you can talk for days about why you'd be a perfect fit. But it turns out that 33 percent of bosses will determine whether they're going to hire you within the first 90 seconds of meeting you, according to a survey by Come Recommended, a content marketing and digital PR consultancy for job search and HR technologies. Want to ace the interview? Here are the five top tips from the pros.
Contrary to what we've been told, there is no one way to 'dress for success.' Now that the dust has settled from our post-COVID phase, I believe the new norm of 'being comfortable' in work attire isn't a rule but a call to dress authentically.