Jeff Eads, Ball State University Career Coach, works with thousands of college graduates each year and shares valuable insights on interviewing.
He talks about the importance of making a strong first impression. Employers report that the first impression usually sticks and hiring decisions often come back to how a candidate did in the first five minutes.
We talked about the importance of a candidate matching the interviewer's energy level and personality. The key is to work on your body language especially the little things. For example are you standing with a confident posture and ready to engage?
In business today there are more distractions than ever and so people tend form opinions about us very quickly. In fact research shows that in ten seconds people are already forming their opinions about us.
So the key is know your story, have confident and energetic body language and then be ready not only with your resume but some with open ended questions to engage the other person.