I’m in the U.S. but interviewing for UK jobs since we’re emigrating in January, which means all of my interviews are remote. I’ve only had a couple so far and only one has been via video, the other just phone, but I realized I don’t actually know the protocol here.

I’m in a creative field in the U.S. and the advice I keep being given here is to just wear a shirt and tie to an interview and not a suit because (especially since I’m in my late 40s) it makes you look too old, out-of-touch and grim for a creative position. I actually started getting more work when I ditched the suit for interviews in the U.S., so apparently that was good advice.

But I have another UK interview tomorrow and I’m thinking that maybe they’ll see that the opposite way- that if I don’t wear a suit, I’m not serious about wanting the job.

So what’s the protocol here? Any advice would be appreciated thanks.

  • KammicRelief@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Damn, that’s great that you’re interviewing. Congrats for getting the ball rolling! Is the hope to get a work visa and be able to stay in the UK indefinitely? Or do you already have some connection there that’d make it easier to become a citizen? signed, another hopeful someday expat

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 days ago

      Thanks! I’m lucky in that I have dual citizenship, so I can just be hired. The pain in the ass will be getting the expensive family visa for the kid and possibly my wife as well if she can’t find work that sponsors her. They have to be they fore 10 years before they can be citizens, but the family visa has to be renewed every 3. The kid will be 17 by then, and America will probably be a very different place, so we will have to cross that bridge when we come to it.