Dressing Up For Interviews

Hi,
Iam new to Bangalore and have a lot of difficulty deciding on the kind of dress that i need to wear for an interview. Would like to know your inputs regarding the best that a woman can wear for an interview. Please help me deicide whether western formals or Indian Saree or the churidar is best.
Please bear in mind that Iam a person with over 11 years experiece and I am applying most for positions in HR.
Thanks
Sherine

Hi Sherine
Specially in a metropolitian city like Bangalore, I think that any formal dress should be good enough, if you feel comfortable in it.... whether it is western, saree or churidaar..
What is important however is how you carry your dress and attitude..
But if you want to be on safer side, saree in india is still considered to be the best bet...

hie sherine...
no western outfits please...u can wear a saree/ chudidaar....most imp u shd be shining with confidence...dresssing is secondary....people r vry broadminded at my place....bt we do prefer formal dress code... main thing is u shd be very smartly dressed....first impression shd say it all....
rest will follow
regards
vishal

Hi Sherine,
Wear a dress in which you feel comfortable. If he / she wears something new then their focus will be only on their dress.
Regards

hi xavier,
i dnt agree with you at all...formal dressing is very important...she might feel comfortable in a paricular dress...but the other person should feel the same....most of the companies in bangalore have serious dress code-protocols...there are people at infosys who got fined for not being formally dressed....
regards
vishal

hi sherine,
i'll suggest to go for western formals. dat gives more confidence than saree or a churidaar. its only bcoz of my personal experience. rest in which u feel comfortable.
dips

I agree with the replies so far. The main thing is to be sure you are showing respect for the organisation by dressing appropriately, including cultural norms. However, it is still possible to show some individuality.
I have been involved in many selection processes and have to say I am often disappointed with colleagues on selection panels who get fixated on an applicant's fashion sense at the expense of their abilities, knowledge and experience.
Why should we care whether a person's shoes match their outfit, or whether they are dressed in some up-market fashion label. I still haven't got the answer to that one, but I just know it does seem to be important to some!

Thought you might be interested in advice from this website: http://www.quintcareers.com/dress_for_success.html

"How should you dress? Dressing conservatively is always the safest route, but you should also try and do a little investigating of your prospective employer so that what you wear to the interview makes you look as though you fit in with the organization. If you overdress (which is rare but can happen) or underdress (the more likely scenario), the potential employer may feel that you don't care enough about the job.

How do you find out what is the proper dress for a given job/company/industry? You can call the Human Resources office where you are interviewing and simply ask. Or, you could visit the company's office to retrieve an application or other company information and observe the attire current employees are wearing -- though make sure you are not there on a "casual day" and misinterpret the dress code.

Finally, do you need to run out and spend a lot of money on clothes for interviewing? No, but you should make sure you have at least two professional sets of attire. You'll need more than that, but depending on your current financial condition, two is enough to get started and you can buy more once you have the job or have more financial resources. "

Using the search words "dress code interviews" on Google provides a wealth of opinion.

hie numerouno,
dressing might shows some signs of maturity...i.e how well a person conducts himself....i will tell u an incident wherin i was asked to show my wallet....they were checkin if i had kept the currency in rite manner or not... unfortunately currency was not in best of shape...it was somehow put in the wallet....result i didnt clear the round...dressing & all are taken into consideartion jst to map a persons personality....they do this also because once a person getz inducted in the company....he represents the company....so they might not like a loud/ causal person representing them....what say???
regards
scare_crow