preparing for job interviews

We have these "company presentation" days when companies that are interested in hiring IMD MBAs come and give an hour presentation followed by an hour of cocktails (they pay for it :)

At the end of the day in one of these days, a female classmate pulled me aside: "Sia, you are pretty slim, your suits are a little too big. Invest in a couple nice suits, you will need them in the future anyway."

Well, she is right. I confirmed with a few trusted advisors. The truth of it is that I bought those Polo suits during my senior year in college at the Polo outlet since my first job required me to wear a suit to work everyday. That was almost 10 years ago. I still fit in them (tightly), but they were a little big then, and still big today.

So I embarked on a suit buying spree this summer. (I also gave up the whole buying suit at outlet deal since a store manager at Brooks Brothers told me that the suits in their outlet is not made of the same quality as the ones at their stores)

First in Argentina, I bought a CD suit. Trust me when I say it wasn't expensive. The suit wasn't any cheaper than regular suits in the U.S., but it was CD. Nice design, and it fit me well.
Then came Vienna. They were having these crazy sales. Benetton had this nice casual summer suit. I didn't really need it, but for $160, why not. I need something casual for the summer anyway. After Benetton, I went across the street to finally fulfilled my dream of owning a Boss suit. They ARE nice, especially at 40% off. The only problem was that I couldn't get it taylored in Vienna since we were leaving the next day. So I will be heading to the Boss store in Geneva on Friday.

Do techies really need suit anyway? I hope it will be another ten years before I buy suits again.
(ok, i will really go study accounting now)