Career Planning: Impression Management

This workshop was, by far, the most interesting and most entertaining to me. The person giving the presentation kept everyone engaged by having interactive activities. He talked about the fact that everyday there is someone observing us, whether it’s a professor or a peer. The way you dress and act has a big impression on each individual around you. None of the stuff he talked about was new to me, but i still found it a lot more engaging than other workshops I went to.

So the main focus of the whole workshop was how to make good impressions on people. He talked about different ways that leave impression on people such as the clothing you wear, the way you talk to people; pretty much the way you present yourself to others. He pointed out that this was the reason why they ask students to dress professionally during career fairs.

He also spoke about showing up to class late on the first day, which can give bad impressions on professors. It gives the impression that you’re lazy and don’t care.

Even though i understood the workshop and the point he was making, I kept on getting confused with the way he was making those points. He was just asking so many questions about all these things like how many people we knew and how we met them. It just really confused me because i had a hard time relating it to making impressions; maybe I’m just slow lol.

But i still liked this workshop and I would definitely recommend it to other students who want to fulfill the requirements. You may not learn all that much, but I was able to stay awake in the workshop unlike a lot the other ones I went to.