Quoted: Leave it. If the boss has a 'dress code', he'll tell ya.
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So not good advice for a young man. Nothing screams slacker louder than a scraggly 25 hair 'beard' on a young guy.
It just isn't professional and doesn't even come close to portraying that image.
Well... Unless you're one of those starving artist hippy types, I suppose.
To me, and I may be wrong for this but, it makes me think the guy's lazy and can't be bothered with his appearance.... I can't take that kind of person seriously, and I'd have major doubts whether he'd take his JOB seriously. Again, I may be wrong, but most often I tend to think I'm not on this.
I guess it may sound stupid to form an opinion on "looks" but they very often drop clues as to how the person is. If they don't take their appearance seriously, why would I think they'll take the job seriously ? I suppose that smacks of prejudicial thought, but that's just me....
I go with the "shave it" side here..... Especially if you're going to be a .gov intern, working for an old salt, ex-serviceman. It's just more professional looking and I'll hazard to say, he'd get taken more seriously, even WITH a babyface...
Again, just my opinion, for whatever that's worth.