Some people trust their first impressions about a person’s character because they believe these judgments are generally correct. Other people do not judge a person’s character quickly because they believe first impressions are often wrong. Compare these two attitudes. Which attitude do you agree with? Support your choice with specific examples.
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First impressions are often correct and those are lasting impressions. But taking it for granted that such first impressions are always correct would be totally wrong.
In the case of interviews on the business front and jobs, within the first few seconds of a new encounter, interviewees are evaluated… even at a glance. Interviewers appraise your visual and behavioral appearance from head to toe. They observe your demeanor, mannerisms, and body language and even assess your grooming and accessories – watch, handbag, and briefcase. Within only three seconds, you make an indelible impression. You may intrigue some and disenchant others. This first impression process occurs in every new situation. Within the first few seconds, people pass judgment on you – looking for common surface clues. Once the first impression is made, it is lasts long.
When you make the best possible first impression, you have your interviewers in your fist. But when you make a poor first impression, you lose, no matter how hard you scramble to recover it.
In conclusion, hiring for a job or getting married both are the long term prepositions involving personal interviews. In either case interviewee gives a very good first impression to the interviewer and vice versa. Based on these impressions, decisions are taken. But not all employment or marriages last very long. Some marriages end-up into divorces and some employers fire the employee and vice versa. If first impression would be always correct this would never happen. In a way first impressions are more often than not correct but it is unwise and unsafe to assume that first impressions are always correct.
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