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You are so concerned with looking good at the interview you have forgotten about how you smell!  You took a shower with your favorite fruity soap and lilac shampoo and conditioner. You sprayed your melon body spray.  You blow-dried your hair with mouse a la vanilla and used some strawberry and cream hair gel and then sprayed your hair generously with hair spray to keep your hair in place.  After you dress, you squirt three or four sprays of your favorite perfume and lather your hands with your rose scented hand cream.   Now, they will smell you coming as you walk in the building!  You may think that you smell good, but the interviewer or others in the office may be gasping for air.  Wearing cologne or perfume in the interview or at your workplace is a no no because peole can be allergic or sensitive to scents.  Scents can cause headaches and breathing problems for some people.  What smells good to you may smell like bug spray to others!

An interviewer's nose is on alert when you are interviewing especially if they are bothered by perfume or cologne.  Your future boss will be trying to determine if you are someone he or she can be around (smell) eight hours or more a day. 

Perfume is not the only thing that can make you stink!  Bad breath, body odor, dirty clothes, stinky socks and/or shoes, overpowering hand cream, hair spray and/or hair gel and smelling like you just smoked a pack of cigarettes can keep you from getting the job.  Also, don't go get a perm or color your hair the day or two before your interview!

Bottom line is to be considerate of others and practice good hygiene.   It is best not to wear any perfume, cologne, after shave or other strong smelling products.    If you shake the interviewer's hand, you don't want your hand cream or "Old Spice" to linger after you are gone.   Take a shower and wash your hair with non-scented or lightly scented products.  Use a deodorant that is non-scented or lighted scented.  Wear clean clothes and shoes and brush and floss your teeth and use mouth wash.  Forget the cologne or perfume and hand cream.   If you are a smoker, don't smoke after you take you shower and make sure your clothes don't smell like cigarettes! Also, don't drink alcoholic beverages the day of or day before your interview either.   

If you do these things, your won't stink and nobody will be reach for thier oxygen masks when you leave the interview.  Also, remember these things once you start your job too!  For more tips on preparing and succeeding at a job interview and to download a free interviewing guide go to Jobscribble.com.