blue suit, white shirt, red tie?

blee256

blee256

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i read on another message board and heard from some fellow flight instructors taht you should wear a blue suit, white shirt, and red tie to an airline interview. Is that right? I dont want to go out and buy a blue suit when i have a perfectly good black and gray suit. any info would be appreciated.

-Brian
 
Do you really want to work for an airline that is going to not hire you based on what color suit you wear?

Look good and professional, thats all that matters.

I wore a black suit, white shirt, and dark blue w/ black J. Ferrar tie because I didn't want to look like everyone else with the dark blue suit/red tie/white shirt scheme. They hired me, and as far as I know, they didn't reject anyone based on what they wore. One guy even had (what I thought was) a really neat dark olive-colored suit. He got hired too.

Point is, don't sweat it but your best bet is probably to stick to the white shirt and fairly conservative tie with a dark blue, black, or dark grey suit. By no means does it have to be a dark blue suit, red tie, and white shirt. Thats rediculous.
 
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Correct answer.
 
You know what, you'd most likely get hired if you have good interview skills.

From what I've heard from a "former manager of pilot selection", they can smell the people who've read all of the interview gouge sites and "make sure you wear (insert color/item here)" a mile away.

I'm of the school of thought that a strong candidate with a strong background and stellar interview skills can walk into an interview and walk out with a job if he wore a monkey suit.
 
I've worn the same charcoal gray suit with white shirt to all my aviation job interviews and have in most cases come away successful. Wear a conservative suit, pressed shirt, conservative tie, and shine your shoes. The color doesn't matter that much ... and anybody that tells you that the color of your tie will be the difference in whether or not you get an airline job is, with all due respect, full of *crap*.
 
I'm reading this thread an hour after leaving the Men's Wearhouse, where I purchased a suit for an anticipated interview. This is actually my first business suit, so I elected to get what everyone says to get-navy suit, white shirt, dark red tie. It does look professional, but I reasoned that if I am buying this suit for interviews, why not buy an interview-type suit?
 
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So is a zoot-suit out of the question?

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I'd leave the long ass chain and the hat with the huge feather at home, but I think the suit might pass. Now the big question is, what about the black and white wingtips.....
 
thanks guys for the info. Your responses were pretty much, what I thought as well. But when you hear Blue suit, red tie, white shirt from more than one source you start to question it. and in all the jobs i've had, this industry is the oneof the craziest, so if a aolor of a suit/tie/shirt matttered on getting the job, I wouldnt be too surprised.

-brian

btw, is a sky blue/baby blue tie ok?
 
During my Skyway interview, I walked in, they said "Take off your coat, loosen your tie and get comfortable. Let's talk flying".

During my Delta interview, I walked in, (Big) Plato looked over and said, "Hello son, put your coat over there, pull up a chair and welcome to Delta Air Lines."

I'm not sure if any interviewer saw my coat for more than 30 seconds and I don't own any red ties besides my Xmas tie.
 
that's true... doug used a paisley tie, if i remember correctly. I just don't think it matters that much so long as you wear nice pants, a nice collared business type shirt, a tie, have your hair cut, shine your shoes, pluck your nose hairs, take the earrings out and shave!

but most of all - pluck those nose hairs.. nobody likes staring at things like that! haha /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
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and just have fun, enjoy the moment of the interview /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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