リクルートスーツ

りくるーとすーつ
noun
job-hunting suit
clothingwork
1. job-hunting suit (plain dark suit worn by students)
The plain black or dark navy suit, worn with a white shirt, that university students put on for company information sessions and interviews during job hunting (就職活動(しゅうしょくかつどう)). A Japanese coinage; the uniform look is part of the custom.
リクルートスーツを買(か)った。
I bought a job-hunting suit.
駅(えき)はリクルートスーツ姿(すがた)の学生(がくせい)でいっぱいだった。
The station was full of students in job-hunting suits.
These days, more companies say it's fine to come to interviews in your own clothes rather than a job-hunting suit.

Seeing crowds of students in identical dark suits each spring is a familiar sight in Japan, and the conformity is often discussed. Some students wear the suit again at their company's entrance ceremony (入社式(にゅうしゃしき)) and then switch to ordinary business suits.

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