Wearing a bow tie to an interview.

DiscoDave · 3 May 2016 at 14:15

Just wear a tie.

Avenged7Fold · 3 May 2016 at 14:17

Cosimo said:
You forgot physicist or Oxbridge academic.

I judged my fellow physicists for wearing bow ties and shirts that looked like graph paper... and i even wore a trilby to work sometimes!

Scam · 3 May 2016 at 14:19

Avenged7Fold said:
Researches tend to be a bit more eccentric when it comes to work clothes, it was not uncommon to see people in stuff like bow ties when i was in physics, still for most jobs i feel it probably wont help the interview.

Well he's more business IT, rather than science/research. To be fair I don't know exactly

FTM · 3 May 2016 at 14:38

unless its for the role in an orchestra, no.

Mr Blonde · 3 May 2016 at 14:44

I think I'd probably tell anyone wearing one that they'd got the wrong place and say that The Ministry of Funny Walks was two doors down.

Vipa66 · 3 May 2016 at 14:50

Scam said:
I have a good friend who is a CIO and a CEO of two different branches of clinical health IT research and wears a bow tie all the time.

Bet you he didn't wear it to his interview!!

datalol-jack · 3 May 2016 at 14:53

Avenged7Fold said:
I judged my fellow physicists for wearing bow ties and shirts that looked like graph paper... and i even wore a trilby to work sometimes!

Why not? After the graph paper bit, all bets are off! :eek:

dowie · 3 May 2016 at 14:54

Scam said:
I have a good friend who is a CIO and a CEO of two different branches of clinical health IT research and wears a bow tie all the time. It clearly hasn't done him any harm in his career, and that's probably a fairly conservative (boring?) profession to be in..

nah that is exactly the sort of field you'd expect to see one worn - academics, medics etc... will wear them. Makes more sense really for a medic too when dealing with patients - though ideally you'd hope they don't wear a tie at all these days, at least on wards.

datalol-jack · 3 May 2016 at 14:55

Be a dandy an upgrade to a cravat!

Vipa66 · 3 May 2016 at 15:01

dowie said:
nah that is exactly the sort of field you'd expect to see one worn - academics, medics etc... will wear them. Makes more sense really for a medic too when dealing with patients - though ideally you'd hope they don't wear a tie at all these days, at least on wards.

I have a couple of friends who are doctors/GPs and I know for a fact your normal tie is seen as an infection risk, hence you see them tucked in or.... they wear bow ties.

Some folk feel very uncomfortable wearing an open shirt collar, particularly your senior consultant types who don't wear scrubs.

Bet they wouldn't think of wearing a bow tie to an interview though!

EdGey · 3 May 2016 at 15:06

Diddums said:
Personally, I think you should wear these.

Arazi · 3 May 2016 at 15:14

Diddums said:
No, a tie is a tie, a bow tie is a bow tie. One is professional, the other makes you look like you're a wrong un.

Fixed

Sankari · 3 May 2016 at 15:18

Ricochet J said:
Do you think there is anything wrong with wearing a bow tie to a professional job interview (instead of a regular long tie)?

If you're hoping for a job as a clown, it's perfectly OK.

If you're going for anything else, wear a proper tie in a traditional knot.

randomshenans said:
I know someone who wears a bow tie all the time. With a shirt obviously, no naked. He's like, people always remember the guy in the bow tie.

Yeah, they say, 'Remember that ****** in the bow tie? What an absolute ****!'

Schlong&Stable · 3 May 2016 at 15:35

cheesyboy said:
Any employer who rules you out for wearing one is probably not your ideal employer anyway

So basically he's going to limit himself to hipster employers?

flowrider99 · 3 May 2016 at 15:38

I always associated bow ties with clowns, it's a subliminal message.

Avenged7Fold · 3 May 2016 at 15:39

Thompson_NCL said:
So basically he's going to limit himself to hipster employers?

Get the 'ideal' employer and end up working with the most annoying colleagues.

Diddums · 3 May 2016 at 15:47

EdGey said:

What

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Humour not your thing?

~>Dg<~ · 3 May 2016 at 16:04

Evangelion said:
If you're hoping for a job as a clown, it's perfectly OK.

If you're going for anything else, wear a proper tie in a traditional knot.

Yeah, they say, 'Remember that ****** in the bow tie? What an absolute ****!'

yes basically think of a bow tie it basically is associated with clowns jokers

you could always win them over with the good old lego bow tie how could that fail LOL

99 percent of people will think you taking the **** or you a posh **** . might not be true but why would you even put a thought into someones head by wearing one.

might aswell where a red nose

IronWarrior · 3 May 2016 at 16:14

Ricochet J said:
Do you think there is anything wrong with wearing a bow tie to a professional job interview (instead of a regular long tie)?

Wear a tie.

Gustov · 3 May 2016 at 16:28

No. Unless you're working in an auction house or a cool cocktail bar, no.