How Should You Handle Tattoos and Body Piercing During a Job Interview?

Tattoos utilized to be adorned on bodies of young servicemen, captured throughout a evening-out-on-the-town; and for the rough and tumble motorcycle guys and gals. These days, a lot to the chagrin of parents and older grandparents, grandkids, these pimple-faced boys and sweet-natured girls are sporting any quantity of tattoos and gobs of balls at each orifice. All component of a new-age of physique decorations. But is it acceptable adornment for a job interview?

Whether or not you are male or female, if you put on a ring in your nose or numerous sets of rings on your ears or eyebrows, or a cherished silver ball on your tongue, eliminate them for the job interview. Unless you are interviewing for some thing in the rap music globe, take off all physique jewelry till you see the kind of accessories the rest of the function population wears and figure out what is acceptable at that location of function.

Tattoos on your neck, face, arms and legs? A small preliminary observation of workers at the organization exactly where you will be interviewing can supply clues. One employer could not be the least bit rattled. Yet another might have strict guidelines against such physique accessories. Based on the nature of the organization, tattoos hidden below clothes may be okay, but these visible to customers or consumers might not.

Your greatest bet is to conceal tattoos if you can and get rid of all indicators of physique piercings. If you do not want to compromise your selected life-style for an interviewer or a organization, neglect the interview!

Rachel Ingegneri, author of "Ten Minutes to the Job Interview", published by Tallfellow Press, Los Angeles, California.

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