Getting corporate headshots are important for marketing yourself or a small business. For an individual, your LinkedIn or other online profile gets many more views with a headshot. For management teams on the company website, headshots are an essential first impression with potential customers.

So, if you’re in the market for getting headshots there are at least three considerations to avoid getting a bad one.

Don’t Use a Selfie

First, never use a selfie. At least one recent survey demonstrates why using a selfie for a corporate headshot should be avoided. The results found that 88 percent of hiring managers find a selfie for online business profiles like LinkedIn to be “unprofessional.”…