Tuesday, June 17, 2008

My resume is in great shape and I have a list of target employers but I don't know where to start in selling myself. How can I work on this?

When you are working on your resume, completing coursework, working on a long-term vision statement and making short-term career decisions, there's not a lot of time left over for developing a personal 'brand.'  But all the work you are doing informs this important piece of personal research that will uniquely position you in both existing and emerging environmental job markets.

Quintessential Careers has a whole toolkit of resources for exploring the question of how to best sell yourself, including a self assessment quiz (Career Branding: What's the Value of Your Personal Brand?), a how-to for developing your elevator or promotional speech (The Elevator Speech is the Swiss-Army Knife of Job Tools), developing your storytelling ability for the job search (Career Storytelling Tools for Job-Seekers) and more


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