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Dressing for Success

Your appearance at work sends a powerful message about who you are to others. Being perceived as professional leads to success. Follow dress rules for a professional look with essential grooming. Decide between business professional or casual attire. Dressing well is key to moving up in your career.

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Dressing for Success

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  1. From Head to Toe Dressing for Success

  2. Why is YOUR APPEARANCE important at work? • Sends a powerful message about who you are to others. • Depending on how you appear, they will make either a positive or negative judgement. FACT: Your appearance is linked to your success at work.

  3. What is the benefit of being perceived as a PROFESSIONAL at work? Those that are perceived as professional employees are: • Respected by others • Much more successful in the workplace • Move up in the company

  4. What are the dress rules you should follow to look professional?

  5. Business Professional • Ladies • Pant/skirt suit • Dress pants and nice blouse • Jacket over a nice blouse with dress pants • Dress shoes either flats or heels (no open back or open toe) • Panty hose or dress socks • Gentlemen • Dress slacks, shirt and tie • Suit with dress shirt and tie • White shirt • Shirt, sweater and slacks (& tie) • Dress shoes with dress socks (no tennis shoes, everyday socks or WHITE socks)

  6. Essential Grooming

  7. What does GROOMING mean and why is it important? Grooming means keeping your body clean, hair brushed, nails trimmed, and facial hair trimmed. • Poor grooming or hygiene can hurt your image at work by sending a message of: • laziness • disorganization • of being unhealthy • a lack of respect for yourself

  8. What are the rules for facial piercings and tattoosat work? They are unprofessional looking and people will have a difficult time taking you seriously • Remove them • Cover them

  9. Examples of Business Professional Ladies Professional Gentlemen Professional

  10. Examples of Business Casual

  11. Final Thoughts You must decide if you want to succeed or fail at work. In order to succeed at work, you need to look like a professional, which means you need to be WELL-DRESSEDand GROOMEDevery day. It will be easy to make excuses not to maintain a professional appearance and many of you may choose the easy path. But don’t be fooled, success at work is strongly connected to your appearance. It is an undisputable fact. It is supported by many studies. Thus, be wise and make the choice to succeed in the workplace, Dress for Success!

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