CLEVELAND, Tenn. – When meeting a future employer, scholarship provider or college admissions officer, seven first impressions about you will be made in the first 11 seconds.
That’s the advice from a Wacker Chemical representative who met Tuesday with Walker Valley High School seniors.
“It may not seem fair, but that’s the way they make their decisions,” said Jeff Zierenberg, training and personnel manager for Wacker’s $1.8 billion plant being constructed nearby.
Then there are social media messages and images that could complete the first impressions, he said.
Tuesday was all about the future — the immediate future — for Walker Valley students. Ninth-graders took buses to Lee University and Chattanooga State Community College to learn more about college life.