Nine Golden Rules for Making a Good Impression Right Away

Suppose you are going to an interview and want to immediately make a good impression. Remember that a person's opinion of you is 90% formed in the first four minutes of the meeting. From 60% to 80% of this impression is based on non-verbal signals.
Here are the nine golden rules for how to make a good impression immediately.

1. IN RECEPTION

If possible, remove the outerwear and leave it at the reception. Do not enter the cabinet hung with bags and clothes. You will look awkward and awkward. At the reception stand, do not sit down. The secretary will insist that you crouch. When you sit down, you will disappear from his field of view, and you may be forgotten. Stand with your hands behind your back (confidence), slowly swaying back and forth (confidence, ability to control the situation) or with your palms in the "spire". Such signals will constantly remind the secretary that you are here and still waiting. But we do not advise you to behave in this way in the tax inspection.

2. LOGIN

When you enter the office, you immediately make it clear what attitude you are counting on. When the secretary informs you that you can log in, log in immediately, without delay. Do not stand in the doorway like a naughty schoolboy waiting outside the headmaster’s office. Entering the office, do not change the speed. Unconfident people move at different speeds and shuffle their feet slightly.

3. APPROACH TO THE TABLE OF THE OWNER OF THE CABINET

Even if the owner of the office is talking on the phone, rummaging in the drawer or tying the laces, come to his desk calmly and confidently. Keep your briefcase or folder down. Shake hands with the cabinet owner and immediately sit down. Show your interlocutor that you are accustomed to attend such offices and are not going to wait. Those who enter slowly, immediately make it clear that they have time, that they are not interested in their work and that they have nothing to do. Such manners are suitable for millionaires alone or residents of Florida or Queensland, but not because they want to give the impression of an energetic, capable, full of human strength. If you want to draw attention to yourself and make a good impression, walk resolutely, at an average speed and do not pull the cat by the tail.

4. MANUAL

Your palm should be straight. Shake hands with the same force as your interlocutor. Let the interviewee decide when to complete the handshake. When entering, step back a little to the left so that the interlocutor could not place your hand in a palm-up position when shaking hands. Never shake your hand across the table. Double repeat the name of the interlocutor during the first 15 seconds of the meeting. Never speak longer than 30 seconds.

5. LANDING

If you are offered to sit in a low chair opposite the interlocutor, turn 45 degrees to avoid being in the position of a guilty subordinate. If the seat can not be deployed, turn around the whole body.

6. ACCOMMODATION

If you are offered to sit in an informal area of ​​the office - for example, at a coffee table, this is a good sign, since 95% of failures are taken out from behind the desktop. Never sit on a low sofa where you can drown completely. You do not want the other person to see only two giant knees, above which a tiny head rises. If there is no other way out, sit down on the edge to be able to control gestures and gestures. Rotate the case 45 degrees in the direction of the interlocutor.

7. GESTICULATION

Calm, collected, confident and able to control their own emotions, people make clear, simple, conscious movements. People in high positions gesticulate less than those whose status is much lower. This is an old rule: those who have the power are not obliged to move. Remember that in Eastern Europe they are gesticulating with their forearms, whereas in the West and in the countries of Southern Europe they make gestures with the whole arm and shoulder. Copy the gestures and facial expression of the interlocutor, but within reasonable limits.

8. DISTANCE

Respect the personal space of the interlocutor. In the first minutes of the meeting, this space can be quite significant. If you get too close, the other person will lean back, lean back, or start making repeated gestures, such as drumming fingers on the table. As a rule, familiar people can be approached more closely, but it is better to stay away from outsiders. Working with women, men approach them quite closely. Women prefer to stay away from the men with whom they work. People of the same age are closer to each other closer than older or younger.

9. CARE

Assemble your things calmly and confidently. If possible, shake hands with the other person, turn around and exit. If, when you entered, the door was closed, close it behind you. People always look you in the back. If you are a man, be sure to carefully clean your shoes, including the backdrops. Many men neglect this, and women do not forgive such a blunder. When a woman is about to leave, she unconsciously directs her foot toward the door, starts pulling out her clothes and straightening her hair to look decent, turning her back to the owner of the office. As mentioned earlier, the hidden camera shows that without exception, everyone is looking at the departing woman — whether you like it or not. Going to the door, turn around and smile. Much better if a person remembers your smile, but not your ass.