Comments on: So What Do You Do? The Importance of Having an Elevator Speech. http://www.navinstitute.com/blog/yourinterests/so-what-do-you-do-the-importance-of-having-an-elevator-speech.html Learn how to get a new job fast! Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:26:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Matt Durfee http://www.navinstitute.com/blog/yourinterests/so-what-do-you-do-the-importance-of-having-an-elevator-speech.html/comment-page-1#comment-569 Matt Durfee Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:02:23 +0000 http://www.navinstitute.com/blog/?p=55#comment-569 Matthew, you are right to feel some angst about "having" to prepare a quick branding speech. Being competitive and excelling at every aspect of the job search requires <em>new skills</em>, doing things you did not have to do before. What I have found is that the job search skills for the executive level are now the secrets of success for all levels involved in their job search. Having this speech prepared simply makes you stand out as distinctive and confident. It doesn't have to be complex. The elevator speech simply needs to highlight who you are and what you can do for a company. Not having one prepared only ensures that the job seeker fades into the crowds of others who have not prepared as well. Matthew, you are right to feel some angst about “having” to prepare a quick branding speech. Being competitive and excelling at every aspect of the job search requires new skills, doing things you did not have to do before. What I have found is that the job search skills for the executive level are now the secrets of success for all levels involved in their job search. Having this speech prepared simply makes you stand out as distinctive and confident. It doesn’t have to be complex. The elevator speech simply needs to highlight who you are and what you can do for a company. Not having one prepared only ensures that the job seeker fades into the crowds of others who have not prepared as well.

]]> By: Matthew Loxton http://www.navinstitute.com/blog/yourinterests/so-what-do-you-do-the-importance-of-having-an-elevator-speech.html/comment-page-1#comment-404 Matthew Loxton Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:43:51 +0000 http://www.navinstitute.com/blog/?p=55#comment-404 This is a horrible concept that makes self-marketing a survival criterion and turns life into a misery for all but the most extroverted braggarts. It is fine to have this expectation of people whose roles and public profiles require a developed skill in self-promotion, but to set the expectation that everybody regardless of role or character type should be able to cough up their "brand" on demand is wicked and unfair. . This is a horrible concept that makes self-marketing a survival criterion and turns life into a misery for all but the most extroverted braggarts.

It is fine to have this expectation of people whose roles and public profiles require a developed skill in self-promotion, but to set the expectation that everybody regardless of role or character type should be able to cough up their “brand” on demand is wicked and unfair.
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