Aula de inglês: Professional skills First impressions

Professional skills 

First impressions 

When you are first interviewed for a job, make sure that in the first minute you make the right start: you have dressed correctly, arrived on time, shaken hands confidently, and made good eye contact.  

  

In the first minute, people will judge you and it is important that there is no reason to have a negative feeling. ‘I never give a job to someone who has made no effort to look clean and tidy,’ says Jacqueline King, a recruitment manager in the private banking sector. 

  

It is also especially important that you prepare as much as possible before the interview by doing research on the company. ‘I always ask a couple of general questions about my firm and the competition during an interview just to find out if the candidate is really interested in us,’ remarks Robert Pitt, a partner with one of the big four accountancy firms. 

  

Of course, you are not the only person going for the position, so you should also try to do or say something that is a little different and which will help people remember you later. Make sure the conversation is not one-way. If you can smile from time to time, that is a good thing too! 

  

The people who get the jobs are enthusiastic, honest, well presented, and lucky. So, if you do not get the first job you apply for, keep on trying.