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Wearing Uniforms to Interviews

You want your oral board to run smoothly without any surprises. Since what you wear is the strongest non-verbal statement you can make when you walk into the room a uniform, any uniform, might not get you off on the right footing.  Are you willing to take that chance?

For some reason candidates have been convinced by themselves or others that this will some how separate them from the other candidates.  It can but not in a way you were looking for.  It often hits the panel that you are asking for more points.

Understand you are applying for a snot nose rookie position.  You have no time or rank with the department you are testing for.  So don’t wear your military, volunteer, other department, dogcatcher or other uniform to your interview.

Here's a recent one.

A candidate from out of state called from southern California the night before his oral board.  He asked if it was all right if he wore his military uniform to his oral?  I asked him if he had brought anything else to wear.  He said no.  He said his dad and other members of his family that are in law enforcement told him it would make him stand out.  I told him to go ahead and wear his uniform and we would talk later.

Did he get called back?  Not yet.

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