Korean Job Discussion Forums

[mortilap1]

Does anyone intentionally wear glasses to a job interview? I've heard that wearing glasses can make a person seem smarter or more professional. Any truth to this? Does anyone feel that wearing glasses gives them an edge?

What are some other things (besides being clean shaven, nice clothes) that people do in order to make a better first impression?

Thanks!

[Hokie21]

I highly doubt wearing glasses will make any difference in your interview. Shave, wear something nice, smile, be personable and speak clearly.

Just think of what you're getting hired to do and how you'll be expected to act....and do that.

[andrewchon]

One thing Koreans do is have the laser eye surgery so that they don't have to wear glasses.

Glasses making you look smart is so passé.

[RangerMcGreggor]

[young_clinton]

[drcrazy]

[Stain]

Wear them OP. As somebody said earlier, Koreans love glasses and will wear them if they don't need them even. In addition, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, it does increase your IQ.

[I'm With You]

I agree with you OP. I also wear eye glasses to interviews. I even have a pair that I wear with no lenses.

I suggest that you try that for your next interview.

[maitaidads]

Yes- good advice in this thread. Wear obviously lens-less glasses to your Skype interview. I would also advise to wear a wig of full wind-blown amber hair and invest in some expensive clothes with obvious labels. This was a big game changer for me. First round- no offers. Second round- I wore fake glasses, a small nose piece (to make it just a touch bigger), wig, fancy clothes from Marshalls expensive section, white skin cream, size small underpants to reduce *beep* size, blue contact lens, and had my arm hair lazered. No joke! I know it sounds crazy! After these small changes, I was offered 3 jobs. If you're a male (or especially the usual fat females), I'd also recommend Spanx to reduce your thighs, package (if necessary), gut, and *beep*. You don't want to appear offensive in the interview. Speak slowly and with what's known in the industry as a "posh American" accent. That's basically English vowels and Canadian consonants. Good luck!!

[Stain]

On my skype interview, I didn't turn on the video. Their video was on and once I took a look at them, I decided to choose another school.

[nate1983]

[The Cosmic Hum]

[wanderkind]

At my old school there was a shelf of English children's books in one of the classrooms. One of the books was called "Don't laugh at me!", a kind of moral-teaching story about not making fun of kids that wear glasses.

During a break one day the kids were rifling through them and got hung up on "Don't laugh at me!". They didn't understand why the kids in the book were making fun of someone for wearing glasses.
My co-teacher sat down and tried to explain that in other countries sometimes people think wearing glasses is strange or funny. The kids were like, "But WHY?" Just could NOT wrap their heads around it. It was literally a foreign concept. BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS.

Koreans don't give a shit about wearing glasses, there's really no stigma against it here, and they embrace them as an accessory.

The only people who don't like wearing them are the people who have significant prescriptions but are fed up breaking them or losing them or whatever. So they get Lasik. As far as I can tell.

(Not to derail the thread but side bar: A Korean friend said once that the reason they got eyelid surgery was because they had a prescription and were told when you wear prescription glasses your eyes don't have to open as much, so your eyelid muscles atrophy, and therefore your eyes end up looking excessively small or lidded or something-I-don't-know-the-vocabulary-in-this-area....surely that's BS right? That's sounds like standard Korean beauty-pushing snake-oil nonsense to me.)