While it might be acceptable to skip a suit and tie in some office environments, it's never appropriate to wear jeans, cleavage-revealing tops, flip-flops or skin-tight pants-all interview fashion don'ts hiring managers say they've seen.

'You should also take out all your funky piercings and hide your tattoos,' says career coach Cynthia Shapiro, who is also a former human-resources executive. 'Even if you wear a business suit, if you have a piercing through your lip' it doesn't look good.

6. Oversharing.

After learning that a position involved a great deal of travel, a candidate for a senior sales job at a midsize manufacturer told the interviewer he was worried about how his saltwater fish would get fed while he was away. The worst part of the exchange? 'He wasn't kidding,' says Russ Riendeau, an executive recruiter who set up the interview and confirmed the account with the job hunter. 'He was trying to say that it was his only concern.' The man, who had been unemployed for four months at the time, wasn't extended an offer for the position, adds Mr. Riendeau, a seniorpartner with East Wing Search Group in Barrington, Ill.

Other things employers say that job hunters reveal-but shouldn't -include comments about their health problems, details about their love lives and tales of their financial hardships.

7. Saying thanks with gifts.

A finalist for a head of business development job at a well-known Internet company recently sent a pricey fruit bowl from Tiffany & Co. to a hiring manager following a third interview. The candidate was instantly knocked out of the running. 'That was a real big faux pas,' says Erika Weinstein, president of Stephen-Bradford Search in New York, and the recruiter who introduced the candidate to the employer. 'It's trying to buy yourself a job. It's brown-nosing.'

A thank-you note is really the only appropriate way to show appreciation. But even so, hiring managers say they've received everything from pricey tickets to sporting events to bottles of alcohol-all big no-no's.

8. Sporting a mom-and-dad complex.

In the past two months, Accenture's Mr. Campagnino says he has received two emails from parents of applicants asking why the company hasn't extended their adult children job interviews. 'There's a significant lack of judgment when you have your parents intercede with a potentialemployer,' he says. 'We expect individuals to be able to represent themselves and sell themselves.'

Hiring managers say they've also seen moms and dads accompany their offspring to job interviews and try to intervene in salary negotiations.

Sarah E. Needleman

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