Here is a list of the top 50 Interviewing Mistakes. Here’s another site that points out that you should Not Wear a Hat to an Interview With a little or a lot of research, and by taking the word of umpteen members of the Fluther collective, you would have figured out that wearing a hat to an interview is always a no no.
It just seems like you really wanted to wear that hat so bad, due to your lack of self esteem with regards to your receding hairline, that you hoped and prayed that someone would tell you it was OK to wear a hat during an interview, when almost every single one of us knows it’s not. And then we were not sure why you didn’t know that. Pretty much every book on etiquette, especially job etiquette, whether it’s a real book or an online source tells you that it’s not cool to wear a hat during a job interview.
And then other members were giving you some good suggestions as to what to do about your hair so it doesn’t look bad or messy and that no one should feel any kind of shame about having a receding hairline, because it’s genetic and certainly not shocking for anyone to look at.
There are only a few reasons where I think it might be appropriate/acceptable/tolerated to wear a hat/head covering to an interview. If you were a female cancer patient, who was wearing a scarf, I don’t think anyone would hold that against you, but since you are a male, and baldness is not considered to be an unnatural state, it would be unnecessary for you to wear a hat or a scarf. For women, being bald is extremely traumatizing, not the same type of situation for a male. Another situation might be for members of certain religious groups who are proscribed by their religious teachings to wear very specific head coverings such as yarmulkes and turbans or head scarves. And the only other thing I can think of is if you were indeed being hired to model hats or the interviewer specifically told you to wear a hat.
Otherwise you have to make certain assumptions, based upon long held traditions of etiquette that should be known to most adults and teenagers and even some small children. And it’s a pretty common piece of knowledge that in current day USA, whether you’re in California or Arkansas or New York, you shouldn’t wear a hat to a job interview.
Part of me wonders if you simply never got any kind of etiquette information or training from your family or your school (that kind of stuff was drummed into me and my contemporaries from an early age) or if you simply want to be the rebbel or the odd man out, the bohemian dude who does what he wants and says F you to the man. You certainly have every right to do that, but know in advance that there are consequences that go along with not observing good manners and etiquette. One of those consequences is that you might not be hired.
You are taking the term “be yourself” too literally. If I were to completely be myself, I probably wouldn’t bother to put on any real clothes at all, I’d just wear my night gown and fuzzy slippers. They’re much more comfortable. But I know that I would not be considered for a job if I were to show up in that kind of an outfit. You’ve already pigeon-holed yourself with regards to the types of jobs that you can actually get, because you have chosen to adorn yourself with visible tatoos, have a beard and long hair. That’s your choice, but you must know that you simply would not even be considered for many jobs that are outside the realm of coastal laid back positions whatever that means. I’m from California and I’ve never heard that term before.
So if you really want the job, err on the side of caution and don’t wear the hat. If you really don’t care, then go ahead a wear the hat and take a gamble. Maybe you’ll get lucky and the interviewer will be wearing one of these
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