Proper body language like making eye contact, smiling, sitting up straight, and shaking hands firmly can help make a positive first impression in the first 5-10 seconds of meeting someone. Maintaining confident body language such as good posture and eye contact throughout an interaction can help people confirm their initial positive judgment. Smiling, firm handshakes, eye contact, and wearing blue clothing have been shown through psychological research to convey traits like honesty, confidence, and interest that leave others with favorable first impressions.

1. Leaving Positive
Impression
(Does Body language matter?)

2. Yes Body language matter

3. Research has actually proven that
Research has actually proven that
confident people, those who smile
often and those who maintain
above average eye contact are
usually perceived to be more
attractive than their peers.

4. If you succeeded in leaving a
If you succeeded in leaving a
positive impression your chance of
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getting a job will become higher,
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your social relations will improve
and people will admire you.

5. Expression are important

6. Be Confident

7. Be Good listener

8. These are the effective and
practical advices that are backed
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by
Deep psychological principles

9. If you followed these advices
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leave will be positive 99% of the
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10. Why not 100%?

11. because sometimes the
impression people form of you
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depends on their own past
experience.

12. For example if you saw
someone who looks just like
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your arrogant boss you will tend
to think of him as arrogant even
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if he was not.

13. General Psychology

14. General Psychology
General Psychology
A person takes about 5 to 10
A person takes about 5 to 10
seconds to form an impression
of someone else And then he
of someone else And then he
uses the other 5‐10 minutes to
confirm his judgment.
confirm his judgment.

15. General Psychology
General Psychology
So if you made a good use of
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the first five seconds then your
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chance of leaving a positive
impression will become much
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higher.

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General Psychology
I know you may be thinking that 5
or 10 seconds is a very short period
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of time and that nothing much can
be done in them but if you read the
be done in them but if you read the
following section you will discover
that lots of things take place in
that lots of things take place in
these five seconds but you never
used to focus on them.

17. Things to remember

18. Eye Contact

19. Eye Contact
The first thing you can do is proper
eye contact. Proper Eye contact shows
respect, interest and that you are not
shy. Proper eye contact means that
the eye contact should be around 70%
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to 80% of the time.

20. Handshake

21. Handshake
Another thing that happens in the first few
seconds is the handshake, a firm handshake
seconds is the handshake a firm handshake
combined with proper eye contact leaves the
impression that you are a confident person.
people who don't shake hands in a firm way
will most likely leave the impression that they
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are not confident.

22. Smile

23. Smile
If you did the previous two points you will
appear to be confident but in the same time
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you may appear to be a little cold and that’s
why you need to add a smile on your face. This
smile will not only make the other person think
that you have got a sense of humor but he will
that you have got a sense of humor but he will
also feel more comfortable in dealing with you.

24. Sit Straight

25. Sit Straight
Sit with your back straight and your shoulders
stretched. A straight back leaves the impression
that you are confident happy or interested in what
that you are confident happy or interested in what
you are listening to Never ever cross your legs or
fold your arms when sitting because this leaves the
impression that you are not that comfortable or
impression that you are not that comfortable or
even afraid. Don't place an object like a bag or a file
between you and the interviewer because this
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leaves the same impression that folding your arms
leaves

26. Do not Scratch nose

27. Do not Scratch nose
If you felt like scratching your nose do not do it
because this shows that you are negative evaluating
something, after all your emotions are private and
you shouldn't let anyone know what are you
thinking about unless you want that

28. Wear blue color clothes

29. Wear blue color clothes
If you can wear blue clothes then do it, in the
psychology of colors blue gives the impression of
loyalty and honesty, wearing blue will leave an
unconscious impression in the mind of other people
that you are loyal and honest.
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30. Total Impressions 99%
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31. References
1. Wiki encyclopedia for Body language
1. Wiki encyclopedia for Body language
2. Pictures from www.flickr.com

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