Impressive First Impressions

Geared toward any professional or job seeker, Impressive First Impressions: A Guide to the Most Important 30 Seconds (And 30 Years) of Your Career shows how to make your first impressions take hold in all contexts of daily professional lifefrom job interviews and client meetings to working in teams and persuading others of your ideas.Based on an extraordinary wealth of research and proven, effective techniques, Impressive First Impressions distills a vast amount of information into straightforward, practical steps. Part I covers the big picturestrategies and philosophieswhile Part 2 gets down to specific ?actical and practical?advice for initial encounters of all kinds in the professional world. The concluding section for the advanced reader shows how to master the art of the first impression by embracing one? ACE (audience, culture, and environment), as well as how to approach the ?irtual first impression?when initial introductions are made via telephone, teleconference, or the Web.