Dress for Success...Even for Hedge Fund Interviews

When you are interviewing you should play it safe and wear conservative business attire. While this likely goes without saying if you are interviewing with a more formal/established money manager like a mutual fund, it can sometimes be confusing with hedge funds.  

Admittedly, some hedge funds can be very casual.  Nonetheless, your default assumption when interviewing, whether on-campus or at the firm's office, should be to dress for success at all times.   If a firm tells you ahead of time that you do not have to dress up then that is a different story.  The bottom line is that I can think of no student that was ever dinged for wearing conservative business attire in an interview.  I can think of a few who raised some serious eyebrows by taking a nonchalant approach to attire. 

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