I work in a position where I wear a suit maybe twice a month. When I do, everyone is. When I'm not, nobody is. I'll look very out of place wearing a suit on a random day.
I have an interview this week. It's a few blocks away and in the middle of the day. I don't drive to work.
I'm thinking that I'll wear suit pants and pack my coat in my backpack, then throw a tie on in a Starbucks bathroom. Any other Clark kent type deals someone has used?
Just wear it. Its none of their business.
If people are that nosy, its probably best you're working on leaving there.
If it makes you feel better, you could always tell them you're interviewing for an internal position.
Start wearing a suit every day now and nobody will ask after the third day.
If anyone asks, you have a funeral visitation you have to attend.
I occasionally wear a suit on random days and take a long lunch by myself just to keep em guessing.
It's a daytime interview, and the hiring company knows you have a job. Interview in your normal work attire. Unless you're a E36 M3 whore. Then just go business casual.
From the hiring manager side, I would not expect someone who's currently employed and has an interview in the middle of the day to come in a suit if they don't wear one normally. Then again, I'm in the software business where the only interviewee's wearing suits are sales people or kids fresh out of college.
If you think you've got a good chance at the job, take the day (or morning) off to go to it. Or, "work from home" that day if it's an option?
-Rob
Yeah. I have a third interview tomorrow at one thirty for a second job. Thankfully it's not gonna be too bitchin' hot and I'll wear dress (work) shoes/dark slacks and my 'interview' light blue shirt then hop off to work with my backpack containing a sweat free undershirt and fortunately a dry-cleaned white shirt already there for my night shift otherwise it might be a kabuki dance. 
You could just tell everyone you had a court date. 
It's my standard wise-crack when I see a buddy in a suit. 
What Angry and Rob said. I've been in this position since I've only had 1 Tech Writing job where we had to wear nicer stuff than jeans/polo/sneakers.
And I told the HR person or headhunter, "This is what we wear during the day, if I show up in slacks and a tie, they will know something is up or I'm going to have to lie about a funeral." It was never an issue.
My current gig, I did 3 of 4 interviews remotely with a web cam.
"Funeral."
Whenever someone asked, which they always did at my last job 'cause everyone was nosy like that, the exchange would go:
You look nice. Job interview?
Nah. I interview in the blue suit.
Skip the tie and just leave the sports coat in the car. Shirt and slacks is normal work wear. Put the sports coat on when you get to the place.
Mtn's in banking. That might change things a little.
"Funeral" seems like a pretty good answer.
Funeral would be odd for the location and time of day that I'm leaving. Court date or subpoena should actually work pretty well.
"Personal Matter"
Also, I like the idea of just randomly wearing a suit to keep them guessing. But, suits are the worst, so I'm not sure I could go through with that.
Drive to work - put change of clothes in car.
Hey mtn, good luck on your interview.
EastCoastMojo wrote: Hey mtn, good luck on your interview.
This!
bmw88rider wrote: Skip the tie and just leave the sports coat in the car. Shirt and slacks is normal work wear. Put the sports coat on when you get to the place.
Depends on the job.
Now that it's summer shorts, Tshirt, and flip-flops are normal attire for my office :)
I have always struggled with what to wear to job interviews...
After reading this thread, in retrospect it seems I probably should have worn pants..
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