Professional Attitude

Salutations Everyone

Sorry for the wait, Part 2 of “Making You Look Professional” is Here. Two weeks ago, I talked about your professional attire, this week I will be talking about professional attitudes.

With today’s topic being Professional Attitude, apart from me explaining this to you guys, I would also like to ask you guys to post here what you think having a “professional attitude” means, or rather how about posting a format of your elevator speech here.

 This whole second semester is about building a sense of professionalism which is what the advertising industry would want from their future advertisers. This includes your dress attire, your judgement free attitude to your colleagues, and to arrive early to class/ work. Tardiness is not appropriate for anyone coming into this program as we are postgrads, which means we have been through our undergraduate phase already and now, we have to leave the parties behind and start showing our postgraduate maturity.

A professional attitude means you are to present to the audience a respectful, mannered, and an overall positive attitude. Some of the components of having a professional attitude includes dressing appropriately, showing respect to your audience by greeting them and to shaking their hand, and sometimes, to even compliment them on their greatest achievements. This week in digital class, I had a small lecture on treating class and any other meet ups like an actual corporate or job meeting. This means that I am to show up on time and prior to the meeting, I am to tell the other parties of my unfortunate absence prior to the meetings. When you are at these meetings, dress appropriately, sit straight, talk with a clear and mature voice (no slangs), and most importantly, be an active listener. This may seem tedious and often times exaggerated for your part, but it is necessary because this shows your maturity and your seriousness to receivers.

In the long run, you will not regret doing this because this will get you the job.

here is also a video on the "Do's and Don'ts in a Professional Workplace". Just like to know what you guys think about this. If possible, lets transform our retail attitudes.