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Perfecting your elevator pitch
From the course: Managing Your Professional Network
Perfecting your elevator pitch
- If you've ever been to a networking event, you've likely heard the question, so, tell me about yourself. This question can be a bit confusing if you aren't prepared for it. Are you supposed to talk about your family? Share your passions and hobbies? Or recite your resume? When someone asks you about yourself, your go-to response could be your elevator pitch. An elevator pitch is a succinct and persuasive sales pitch. In this case, you're selling yourself. Once you nail down your elevator pitch, you'll find yourself using it more times than you can count. The term elevator pitch comes from the idea that you could recite it in the time it takes to finish an elevator ride. Let me take you through how I developed my elevator pitch. As I go through it, jot down some notes of how you could fill in the blanks to make it your own. First, start with a high-level introduction. So I would say, hi, I'm Elise. I started a…
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