{"id":1582,"date":"2015-06-03T18:02:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T17:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2015-06-03T18:02:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T17:02:37","slug":"a-first-day-mistake-ive-never-seen-on-linkedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2015\/a-first-day-mistake-ive-never-seen-on-linkedin\/","title":{"rendered":"A First Day Mistake I&#8217;ve Never Seen on LinkedIn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn is full of useful little articles about mistakes not to make in the world of work. However here&#8217;s one I&#8217;ve never seen mentioned. I&#8217;ve just had a kick-off meeting with a new client. In order to appear friendly and unthreatening I dressed in a dark green suit, with a brighter green shirt. Unbeknown to me, the brighter green is not only quite similar to one of the company&#8217;s logo colours, it&#8217;s also the colour they have chosen for many of the walls and much of the furniture at their offices. Take off my jacket, and I was approaching sniper levels of camouflage. There&#8217;s a lesson here somewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn is full of useful little articles about mistakes not to make in the world of work. However here&#8217;s one I&#8217;ve never seen mentioned. I&#8217;ve just had a kick-off meeting with a new client. In order to appear friendly and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2015\/a-first-day-mistake-ive-never-seen-on-linkedin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}