That person may be your supervisor or peer one day, and they will always remember that first time spent with you, and their first impression of you. Pay close attention to your demeanor, your body language, and your responsiveness. During that entire time, it is important that you be attentive, look sharp, and present yourself in the best way possible. You will be introduced, and then spend an hour or two with this new person. With every new encounter, you are assessed and a new opinion of you is formed, over and over again! Halfway into your second week of work you may be introduced to someone new, and asked to do training with them, or even lunch with them. Not everybody will meet you on your first day. In a work setting, when you first start a new job, something to keep in mind is that you will be making several first impressions throughout your entire first week, or even first month. Keep in mind, the people you meet do not know you at first, and your appearance and presentation is all they have to go off of in the beginning of any relationship. It can be nearly impossible to recover after making a poor first impression. It may happen over the course of a quick introduction, a lunch meeting, or an entire first day of work. The entire first impression may not happen in the first few seconds of meeting someone. A poor first impression physically can alter the way in which we interpret a person’s personality as well. Either of these feelings are usually based off of how we perceive them overall, including their look, attitude, demeanor and personality. When we meet someone for the first time, we either have a positive or a negative feeling. The way we have found a certain look or feel to be in the past, will be how we perceive anything we first see. We can’t help it, and we all do it – humans’ first impression of any object or person is taken with their visual sense. Although the phrase says ‘you can’t’ – people do judge a book by its cover. We’ve all heard of the phrase ‘You can’t judge a book by its cover’.