Great work! The slight pushback is on the chickpeas though! Be genuine, even if it can come off as quirky. I’m sure the staffer remembers the chickpea guy much more than 20 other meetings that week, and with some charisma that is now your hook (if you have chickpeas because you’re vegan and most places don’t offer it, that’s a great conversation that shows you have strong values and are compassionate, positive traits which give you an aura you will benefit from when presenting what you came for).
I think suit and no chickpeas can easily end up with looking like everyone else! Add your touch to that—my suits often have colorful pocket squares, or are paired with ties or colorful socks that tell a story from my past. That gets more doors open than just the off-the-shelf kind of look! A stain on it from my toddler will make it better still if I play my cards right and am not sitting across from a robot!
Important note though is that the signals must be real and come from a place of confidence! If you’re not vegan, the can of chickpeas will come off flimsy. Intentional discrete stain to talk about your kid will be disingenuous. A colorful suit that you can’t explain is worse than off the shelf one. It took quite some time for me to get to know what stories I want to tell with my look and quirks and come to terms with it myself.
Great work! The slight pushback is on the chickpeas though! Be genuine, even if it can come off as quirky. I’m sure the staffer remembers the chickpea guy much more than 20 other meetings that week, and with some charisma that is now your hook (if you have chickpeas because you’re vegan and most places don’t offer it, that’s a great conversation that shows you have strong values and are compassionate, positive traits which give you an aura you will benefit from when presenting what you came for).
I think suit and no chickpeas can easily end up with looking like everyone else! Add your touch to that—my suits often have colorful pocket squares, or are paired with ties or colorful socks that tell a story from my past. That gets more doors open than just the off-the-shelf kind of look! A stain on it from my toddler will make it better still if I play my cards right and am not sitting across from a robot!
Important note though is that the signals must be real and come from a place of confidence! If you’re not vegan, the can of chickpeas will come off flimsy. Intentional discrete stain to talk about your kid will be disingenuous. A colorful suit that you can’t explain is worse than off the shelf one. It took quite some time for me to get to know what stories I want to tell with my look and quirks and come to terms with it myself.