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Job interview help!

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Confuzzlediddled · 07/08/2017 22:10

Hi all, have been job hunting for a while, without much success. I'm currently temping part time and had kind of resigned myself to a future of 8k a year - but now a job I applied for back in June have invited me for an interview yay!

It's for a customer support manager so back in junior management where I was before being made redundant in December.

Here's the but though!

It's for a publishing company and the bumph about the interview specifically says that they don't have a dress code but first impressions count, this is where I've no clue what to wear!
Normally for interviews I wear either a suit or a dress and jacket, same as I'd wear for a customer meeting (hey I'm old school!) but I'm not sure what to wear for this, I don't want to appear too formal whereas I'd normally go full on formal!
Do I maybe go for a bit more colour than my usual black or navy and stick to dress and jacket, wear a black dress and a coloured jacket or vice versa? (I do have a bright yellow walking stick so I'm part way there 😂)

To complicate things i'm the equivalent weight of 3 elephants (size 28) and I'm disabled so can't really jazz up with shoes etc as I can literally get my one pair of interview loafers on for an hour or 2 (normally I live in my skechers)

So help me wise ones...

OP posts:
SerfTerf · 07/08/2017 22:12

Dress and a jacket sounds fine.

Judydreamsofhorses · 07/08/2017 23:03

I think a suit or dress/jacket sounds very appropriate. If you wanted to "jazz it up" you could wear an interesting necklace or something? At my interview for my current job I wore a black dress with black knee-high boots (it was winter) and a grey tweedy jacket, with a big bib necklace - both the women on the panel commented on how much they liked my necklace. (I also wore red lipstick, which I always wear, and red nails - I know people tend to frown on this for interviews, but it made me feel chic and polished.)

Good luck with the interview.

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