{"id":4422,"date":"2017-09-14T09:49:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2017-09-14T09:49:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:49:37","slug":"5-ways-to-make-a-better-first-impression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/5-ways-to-make-a-better-first-impression\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways to Make a Better First Impression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"smallHeaderBreak blogAuthor\">by Marianne Stenger | September 13, 2017<br \/>\nRe-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vault.com\">Vault<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As summer comes to a close, many of us will be starting new jobs or working with new clients and colleagues. In order to make a good impression, it can help to understand how others perceive us and what we can do to improve the way we come across during that first meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Research shows that most of the time, first impressions are formed within a matter of seconds. Obviously this doesn\u2019t give us much time to do or say anything to influence how we\u2019re perceived, and that\u2019s why\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencolleges.edu.au\/careers\/blog\/how-to-make-good-impression-first-day-at-work\">it\u2019s so important<\/a>\u00a0to arrive on time, dress professionally and look the part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vault.com\/blog\/interviewing\/5-ways-to-make-a-better-first-impression?utm_source=WCU_Letter&amp;utm_medium=Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=09_14_2017&amp;referer_ID=7778&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=97827\">Learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Marianne Stenger | September 13, 2017 Re-posted from Vault As summer comes to a close, many of us will be starting new jobs or working with new clients and colleagues. In order to make a good impression, it can help to understand how others perceive us and what we can do to improve the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":847,"featured_media":4423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"5 Ways to Make a Better First Impression","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1163,84,37],"class_list":["post-4422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-job-info-advice","tag-first-impression","tag-interview","tag-job-search-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2017\/09\/FirstImpression.jpg?fit=230%2C163&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79l8e-19k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4424,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions\/4424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}