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Dressing for an Interview in Cold Weather

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at CMU chapter.

Oh no! I have an interview, but it’s so cold out!

Picture this:  today you have an interview for a summer internship. You want to dress nicely to show that you study hard, but also that you’re not a complete nerd who only wears jeans and CMU hoodies. But when you look outside, you  remember that you are in Pittsburgh, PA. Yes, it is snowing. Again. But you can still dress nicely and be warm for your interview!

For my OC interview, I paired a dressy, bright, eye-catching pink top with a black blazer to go for a semi-formal/business casual look.

I also wore a pair of black boots and a grey coat to keep me warm.

I kept my eye makeup simple, doing my eyebrows and using mascara.  For cheerful-looking lips, I wore Benetint lip stain from Benefit.

(I think walking through the snow erased some of my makeup, but I hope my pink top was bright enough that it didn’t matter!)

Good luck on your interviews, and keep warm!!

Seoul, Korea and Kent, CT. Now at Pittsburgh, PA.
Laura Stiles is a Creative Writing, Professional Writing double major at Carnegie Mellon University who will be graduating in May 2014. In addition to being Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Carnegie Mellon chapter of HerCampus.com, she is Co-Prose Editor of The Oakland Review, Carnegie Mellon’s literary-arts journal, a manuscript reader for Carnegie Mellon University Press, and has copy-edited for Carnegie Mellon’s newspaper, The Tartan. She was also Communications and Arts Management Intern at The Hillman Center for Performing Arts in summer 2012, and is ecstatic to be studying abroad in Sheffield, England in spring 2013. In her free time, she enjoys singing along to music on long car rides, spontaneously kicking off her shoes to explore lakes and creeks, and curling up with a soft blanket and a captivating book. She was also recently pleasantly surprised to discover that she has a taste for sushi.