NEW job, all-new wardrobe? Think again.
It may be tempting to burst into your new office looking as if you’ve already blown your first pay cheque. But a quieter approach is probably better, because there is solid science behind the idea that first impressions matter.
The primacy effect, psychologists will tell you, means that the first information received is most likely to be remembered as it is assumed to be the most important. Nobody wants to be known as the person who turned up on their first day wearing that skirt or shirt.