Who's going to take you seriously if you show up
on zoom, looking a little something like this,
this video isn't about how to look good on zoom
though, this video is about how to look
professional on zoom. If you are ready to learn my
top five tips to looking more professional in zoom
meetings, tap that like button. And let's just
jump straight into it. First things first, if you
show up looking something like it's gonna be hard
for people to take you seriously, even if you're
on site work environment is really casual, it's
likely that you don't literally roll out of bed
and walk into a meeting room like like you might
on zoom when you're working from home. And if
you're meeting with people outside of your
company, you want to reflect the standards of
theirs as a sign of respect instead show up
looking a little bit more like this. You don't
have to be dressed to the nines or in full hair
and makeup like how I am right now in order to
look more professional in zoom meetings, but a
little bit of polish and a clean shirt that you
haven't been wearing for the last three days
straight is going to go a long way you might have
something else catching your eye right now though,
and we need to talk about it. Because if you want
to look professional on zoom, your background
matters, finding a plain wall to have your back to
is totally going to do the job. This is also media
good idea if you have a zoom call and when you're
working from home, and you don't want to have
people gossiping about where you live, which
honestly I've only really heard about happening
when an executive has like their ball and plays in
the background in a video call. However, I
digress, let's get to the next tip. But for that
one, I'm gonna head to my desk and make myself a
little bit more comfortable. Now I'm back in my
usual spot. The next tip to looking more
professional in zoom meetings is to mind your
angles. Let's be honest, we've all seen that
strange nostril shot and not only is it rather
unflattering, it's pretty unprofessional. No one
should ever see up your nose at work. Unless
they're like a nostra model or something like
that. I know what you might be thinking, how do we
solve this predicament when we mostly are working
from laptops that have webcams attached with one
of these bad boys, of course, simply put your
laptop on it and it is going to bring the webcam
up to eye level and that is going to be much more
flattering and much more professional on zoom. And
that brings us to tip four to look more
professional on zoom. And that is to figure out
your lighting. Right now I'm sitting in what is
essentially a home studio with studio lighting. I
know not everyone has this. And if you were to
just go get this to attend zoom meetings and have
better lighting, it might be overkill. However,
there are a ton of really simple affordable
options that you can get, you can get one of those
lights that just attaches to your desk, you can
get a desk lamp that is ideal for lighting in
video calls. But I'm going to pop some B roll on
the screen right now that is just me sitting at my
desk with the overhead lights on. So I'm going to
shut it all down. So you can see what it actually
looks like with just the normal lights in my room,
you can see that there's some weird shadows, maybe
it's a little bit hard to see it comes across like
I'm sitting in my dark basement, which I actually
am. But no one needs to know that there are
several small lights that you can get that attach
to your desk, you can get a desk lamp, or you can
get one of these little guys that is just going to
clip onto your computer, give you a nice little
bit of lighting, and it's going to brighten up
that beautiful face of yours. And even though this
is a cheap little light that I got, I'm going to
show you guys the side by side difference. So you
can see, it doesn't make a drastic difference. It
is not studio lighting. However, it does make a
difference and how well you can see me which is
going to make me look more professional on zoom.
But of course looking professional on zoom takes
more than having the right wardrobe and the right
stage in place. And this I think is actually the
most important tip that I have. And you can blow
all the rest of them. But if you do this, you are
going to look more professional and zoom you need
to maintain eye contact. How do you do that? When
you're in a zoom meeting using a webcam, you can't
actually look in someone's eyes, can you? Well,
you can't look them directly in the eye. But you
can give them the feeling that you are by making
sure that you are looking directly into the camera
lens Don't be the person who's just staring at
themselves the whole entire time. Because let's
face it stuff like this is super ox. making eye
contact when you're speaking is how you actually
connect with people how they feel engaged in the
conversation is also going to make you as
trustworthy and of course, more professional on
zoom. And no, you don't have to stare into the
webcam for the entire duration of the meeting.
What I generally recommend is when you're
speaking, hold as much eye contact with the camera
as possible. But just like when you're actually in
a meeting room, you're not going to just stare at
one person whole entire time, you can still glance
down you can see the other people on screen. See
if someone's trying to interject see how their
reactions are to what you're saying. Take those
momentary glances as though you were just looking
around the room and then return eye contact. Of
course in someone else's speaking, you can look at
the screen so that you're having that delicious
icon back with them as well. And actually, there's
one more thing and it's only about looking
professional and zoom but it is going to help you
be perceived as being more professional in zoom
meetings. So let's just call this one a bonus tab
for the love of all that is chocolate, learn how
to mute and unmute yourself and pay attention to
which state you're currently In nothing is less
professional in a zoo meeting than being unmuted
and being the heavy breather that is disrupting on
the call or eating, or even worse, having a
conversation with someone that is in the same
dwelling as you and being completely disruptive in
the meeting, even worse, if you're gossiping about
someone in the meeting, and everyone can hear you,
and not equally, but it's also a little bit
aggravating. And I saw some memes going around the
internet that it was like to 2020 raise of the
year, make sure that you unmute yourself when you
go to speak. Now just in case you're someone who
doesn't know how to use these controls, I'm going
to quickly pop on screen just a little overlay of
how you can click that mute button and click that
mute button at any time. One thing I do want to
mention as well is I know that some of you might
be watching this because you were preparing for a
zoom job interview and you want to make sure that
you come across as professional and awesome in
that job interview. And if you do I want you to go
and watch this video right now because it is going
to give you tips on how to be amazing and
outstanding in a video conference interview. But
first I'd love to know if you have any tips to add
on how to be more professional in zoom meetings.
Let me know in the comments down below. As always,
thank you so much for watching. If this video was
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my channel and my friend I will see you in the
next video. Bye for now.