Image Consulting is the profession of helping people manage their image to have a more rewarding personal, professional, and social life. It deals with guiding clients on optimum utilization of their personal resources like wardrobe, grooming practices, behavioural skills, and communication in order to achieve their goals in every role that they play in life. …
Giving successful in-person interviews is a matter of your preparation, the First Impressions you create and how you handle the rest of the interview. Each factor is influenced by the former. The later part of the interview depends on the First Impressions and these in turn are determined by the care with which you …
With dependable broadband availability, practically all large companies with teams and clients spread around the globe have video conferencing facilities in their offices. A video interview is a good way to screen candidates at a distant location – foreign or domestic – before shortlisting the candidate for an in-person interview. Even small to mid-size companies …
In our previous post, Writing the Perfect Resume – I, we talked of finding out the company objectives, the 3Cs – Competence, Commitment, Cultural Fit – and mapping your strengths and achievements to meet these objectives. This helps you project the right image that creates positive First Impressions. When mapping the two, you need to …
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Out of the many resumes you send out during your working life, you receive a few dozen invites to interviews. Of these, you get selected in a dozen or less, depending on the number of times you seek change. Now, when you send out your resume, don’t forget that hundreds of resumes could be doing …
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According to Judith Rasband- the first lady of image management, the first Image Consultants were mothers themselves. They were responsible for grooming the child, for coaching their sons on their visual communication or the image they wanted to project. From then on it moved to teachers in schools, clerks/ salesmen in the clothing stores and …
Managing one’s image is the key to success in any walk of life. It is easy to confuse image management with a makeover, or attending a motivational or grooming workshop or getting a new hairstyle or buying new clothes. Image Management is much more than that and it involves ongoing evaluation and better utilization of …
Employees are a company’s greatest resource. If a company can’t create satisfied employees, the employees will find a company that can. “I’m out of here!” fumes Joe Blow, dissatisfied with the lack of recognition from both management and staff. The cost of employee turnover is very high considering re-recruitment and training. The cost may be …
