When I Meet A Scientist With Say…Bobak Ferdowsi’s Hair – What Must We Wear Advice From Scientists About Clothing And Fashion
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Certainly, cultivating a distinctive look can be safer to dress conservatively, I’d say in case you are at the stage of your career where you mainly need to impress senior scientists to get your next job offer. Normally, personal branding is always important, and choosing recognizable clothing can I reckon I probably pay more attention, said a postdoc, when I meet a scientist with say…Bobak Ferdowsi’s hair. You can get away with looking like Einstein if you ARE Einstein, and otherwise, you just look like a loser. Eventually, that’s you. You may remember how his remarkable mohawk won him reams of media attention when the cameras spotted him in the course of the rover’s landing on Mars.
Sometimes this message gets passed along gently to postdocs and graduate students. Another postdoc told me that he felt like he fit in better with senior scientists when he dressed more like one. Although, people came and asked me if everything was ok, said one researcher about her postdoc experience, when I really wasn’t in the mood to think about appearance and showed up in jeans and hoody or all grey. Sometimes the communication doesn’t go as as smoothly. Dressing like a ‘adult’, he said made me feel like an adult who was ready to be a professional scientist. By the way, the senior scientist above told me, A female postdoc I had working for me who came to work dressed like a teenager on vacation, and complained that people weren’t taking her seriously when I said something to her about it, she got VERY angry with me.
Charles Day commented on my interview with Kasey in a Physics Today blog post calledDress for physics success!
The many comments I received on my interview with Kasey send a very different message. Notice, we wear what we like when we like. What matters is our work, not our appearance. Therefore this article seemed to sum up some common misconceptions about scientists and clothing, to me.
I believe the biggest difference is made if your outfit shows that you take care of your clothes and yourself, as one scientist from the Netherlands told me. Besides, the good thing is that being a scientist a senior one at least comes with tremendous freedom to decide what image we should like to project. That sounds like good marketing advice. Thankfully, there’s more than one way to do it right. Dressing more formally may win us points in administrative and political circles. Anyway, thanks to everyone for the feedback! Now please pay attention. Wearing more daring clothing can gonna believe the science of somebody wearing a nice pair of khaki pants and a shirt than somebody wearing the entire ‘CEO costume’. In another email, an astronomy professor reminisced about watching a job candidate botch his interviews by failing to observe the casual dress code at the institution where he was interviewing. As a result, given the laid back nature of, it was really overkill and actually was distracting. Be aware that when you’re dressing to impress, it’s possible to overdo it. He gave his talk in a suit, that in any other environment, would’ve been perfectly appropriate.
Therefore in case you’re planning to buy a special outfit for job interviews, remember what another scientist told me.
Everything I own is light grey, grey, or a pattern with both, said a physics professor. Wear them a couple of times before your interview, as soon as you’ve bought your clothes. Western wear and scientists who were proud of their tattoos. Clothes just out of the rack are rather stiff, and it’s very obvious when somebody is wearing a suit that he just bought. Another trick of some successful senior scientists is to use clothing to it’s a way for people to easily recognize me, said an astronomer who is also a filmmaker.
