You may have a job interview coming up. In today’s environment you will often have a larger number of competitors for a position that previously. That’s why you need to particularly ‘own’ the first seven minutes of the interview process.

My view is this. Interviewers will decide to hire you, or not (even though they won’t admit this) based on the the impressions you leave in the seven minutes (approximately) – starting from the time you enter the office where the interview will take place and from impressions you leave in the following sequential steps: