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You never get a second chance to make a first impression. In business, if you do not have a professional image with that first contact, you will put yourself at a disadvantage. Creating a polished professional image can be a challenge in a casual environment, but having professional image when everyone else is casual can move you up the ladder to success.

The new Give Yourself a Boost Creating a Professional Image online workshop is ready. This workshop is more media rich. View the workshop on your computer as a movie, on your smartphone, as a PowerPoint presentation or listen to the audio portion only. The Creating a Professional Image workshop, like all of the Give Yourself a Boost workshops, is designed to help you with all aspects of your professional image.

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January has come and gone in a flash. Are you still on track to polishing your professional image? We are slowly rebounding but the job market, while making some small gains, is still pretty tight. In the competition for jobs (and promotions), sometimes, the one element that makes one candidate more desirable than the rest is a more professional image. If you plan to advance your career, a professional image is important. If you plan to increase your income, a professional image is important. Even if you are just hoping to maintain your status quo, a professional image is important. In other words, a main component of your success is projecting a polished professional image.

Contrary to popular belief, projecting a professional image doesn’t just happen. It is a deliberate decision. The components to a professional image are assessed and the ones that need to be worked on are worked on. One component to projecting a professional image is self confidence. Self confidence comes from knowing who you are and where you are going - and that requires developing a plan.

The first part of self confidence, ‘knowing who you are’, sounds like the easy part, but not necessarily, especially when it comes to defining your professional image. There are so many factors to consider. Your work environment influences your professional image; your career goals influences your professional image and your personal style (that’s right, your personal style) influences your professional image. What’s more, and this is a factor that is often neglected, your body shape influences your professional image.

The second part to self confidence, ‘ knowing where you are going’, can be tricky and how it influences your professional image is not always clear. If you plan the stages of your career (that means setting some goals), you can make sure your appearance, your professional image, reflects those stages. The general consensus is that you should dress for the job that you want not the one that you have. Knowing where you are going will give you the right professional image for the job that you want.

Another component to projecting a professional image is the obvious one; dressing in a way that projects a professional image. Even that can be a challenge, especially if you work in a casual environment. The business casual work environment has caused women’s professional image to really take a hit. Women dressed in casual clothing are not viewed as professional as men who are dressed casually. We have to really monitor our appearance in order to make sure that we are projecting a professional image.

One thing that you can do that will always give you a more professional image is add a blazer to your casual outfits. A blazer can add polish to even the most casual outfit. That is just one thing. There are other tweaks that you can make to your wardrobe that can improve your professional image. We have put them in an online/on-demand Image workshop. You can view the online Image Workshop introduction by clicking here.

If having a professional image is important to you and you think that your professional image has been derailed, Polished Professional Image can help. Schedule your consultation today. Call Polished Professional Image at 312/823-6214 or click here to complete and submit our questionnaire.

The mission of Polished Professional Image is to help you align your professional image with your career goals. This includes giving you the tools that you need to boost your confidence. To make sure that your professional image is never compromised, contact Polished Professional Image today.

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