Thursday, March 24, 2011

DEVELOPING YOUR PROFESSIONAL IMAGE (CAREER SERVICES WORKSHOP)

Yes,
I attended my first, no second career services workshop at the Tempe campus. I accidentally walked into the workshop and it proved to be very valuable.
Four students attended the workshop and I liked that we were a small group.
The workshop discussed how to develop your professional image (of course) as one is who about to join the labor force. I actually learnt how to create your 30 seconds commercial - I have heard about the "elevator pitch" but this was new and interesting.

I also learned how to adapt your personal life to developing your image and tips on deal makers or breakers.

The one hour I spent there was definately time well spent.

4 comments:

  1. Developing your image in today's society is huge as the competition for jobs is increasing. I am curious as to what the "elevator pitch" is I don't think I have ever heard of that one. I might be applying for a new job in the near future so if you have any advice on how to make myself more appealing to an employer please feel free to send it my way!

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  2. hi Brady,
    emmm this is long version of the elevator speech. Imagine you meet your supervisor in an elevator and you have a project you are working on, the pitch is the less than 3 minutes summary of what your project is about.

    The career services website has lots of resources.
    the link is below
    students.asu.edu/career.

    all the best.

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  3. Thanks for posting your feedback from this workshop. This is such an important component to our next step after graduation and I am definitely going to see when they are offering another one of the workshops.

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  4. The elevator pitch is such a neat concept. A friend of mine in mechanical engineering had an assignment to make one to a CEO of a fictional firm in only 30 seconds. He found it difficult to condense a complicated engineering concept to such a small amount of time. However, it is a very important way to communicate in the professional world and key to selling your skills.

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