6 ways your wear/package could cause you your dream job (II)

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 YOUR BELT & SHOE:  just as I said last week, your packaging go a long way to determining the impression the panelists will form about you, and their impression about you will also affect their grading of your performance. It will be absurd to see an applicant who claims to be CURRENTLY engaged wearing tattered shoe or torn belt. For fresh graduate, it may be understandable, even though that may jeopardize his chances; for someone who wants to change job, especially a good job, his appearance will go a long way to determining how his claims will be taken seriously. That informs why some experienced job seekers borrow cars to attend some interviews (just to enhance their packaging). Do you now see that how you present yourself for interviews matters?    

GENERAL APPEARANCE: One thing I have come to realize about how man value things is in the way the things are packaged, if animal excrement could be packaged for man to buy, what would man not ‘buy’ if well packaged.  Going for interviews should not only be seen as question and answer session is should be seen as an avenue to ‘sell’ yourself. Package yourself in such a way that you will be liked, and with an above average performance at the questioning session, the liking will spur sentiments in your favour, and that is it. If on the other hand, you did above average and your packaging is zero, it will take the absence of an equally good person with better packaging for you to land the job.

On a final note, I once conducted interview for a couple of IT Administrators, one of them dressed so shabbily that I almost wrote him off; but as a professional in the job (which most panelists are not) I assessed his expertise, eve nthough I scored him low on dressing. At the end of the interview, he was so lucky that he met most of the requirements for the job, so I gave him the opportunity to scale through to the next stage along with others. The next stage comprises of a team of interviewers. Luckily for him (maybe because of my comment on his dressing) he dressed better to the next stage, and he eventually got the job. But because his packaging is poor, he is not getting the respect he ought to command holding such office because his dress sense is equivalent to staff of lesser grades so people of his level merely relate with him as though their level is higher than his. And staff junior to him relate with him as if they are on equal level. This shows how far presentation of oneself, if you like call it packaging, can go a long way to telling how one will be treated or accepted. Hence the popular saying “how you are dressed will determine how you will be address”.

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