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FREE Resources
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for
Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine
.com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for
Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine
.com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
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"What do you do?"
How to Write Your Elevator Speech
Within the first three seconds of meeting someone, you have made a first
impression. People notice the way you are dressed, how you carry yourself,
the company you keep, whether or not you are neat, your accessories, your
delivery, how you make them feel, whether you have common surface
denominators, and more. People have a lot to remember in life and they don’
t remember what you’d like them to. So they store first impressions in their
mind for simplicity’s sake. It is virtually impossible to reverse first
impressions. They are human nature.
In those first three seconds someone will decide if you are on a comparable
professional or social level and draw a judgment as to whether or not they
want to further get to know you. If you appear to be of the same or higher
status, you are admired and cultivated for further interactions. If you appear
to be of a lower status, you are tolerated but not targeted to go anywhere
from there.
How to Write Your Elevator Speech:
1. Write down a list of all of your accomplishments. Think of them in terms
of how they helped people solve problems - how you eased a company's
pain. Remember accomplishments are not skills. You are not able to use
Excel software. You manage account incomes and expenses for to show
profitability.
2. Answer the following question: “What is the overall category of
transferable skills that encompasses my accomplishments?”
Transferable skills fall into three categories: communications (writing,
graphic design, photography, art), organization of information (accounting,
banking, data entry,) fixing or building things (architect, interior designer,
mechanic, information systems support), etc.
3. Imagine yourself taking one giant step up the ladder and looking down
on this from a higher vantage point - how can you solve a company's pain.
After reviewing the above list, write down what overall problem you can solve
for people in business. How do you solve pain for a company. Give just
enough information that will beg the question, how do you do that? Is it that
you take the headache out of computer systems so that businesses can use
their systems to make more money? (information systems support). Do you
design interior space that draws people to want to hang out there? (interior
designer). Do you make a company’s employees more productive?
(corporate trainer).
4. Write one or two sentences that sum up your response to question #3
for you "elevator speech." The opening line of your speech should be how
you answered item #3. Follow it with what you would say if someone were to
ask you, “How do you do that?”
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance" by clicking here.
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For the FREE Worksheets: “Does Your Resume Look Weathered?” and “Six
Ways to Know if This is the Right Company for Me” go to: www.
startingovernow.com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon is a career advice expert who went from being a stay-at-
home mother with four children to divorce, poverty and then on to become a
newspaper reporter, trade association executive director, public relations
consultant, and foundation president and CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career
tips, worksheets and Blog on her website at www.startingovernow.com.
Contact Mary Lee at info@startingovernow.com.
How to Write Your Elevator Speech
Within the first three seconds of meeting someone, you have made a first
impression. People notice the way you are dressed, how you carry yourself,
the company you keep, whether or not you are neat, your accessories, your
delivery, how you make them feel, whether you have common surface
denominators, and more. People have a lot to remember in life and they don’
t remember what you’d like them to. So they store first impressions in their
mind for simplicity’s sake. It is virtually impossible to reverse first
impressions. They are human nature.
In those first three seconds someone will decide if you are on a comparable
professional or social level and draw a judgment as to whether or not they
want to further get to know you. If you appear to be of the same or higher
status, you are admired and cultivated for further interactions. If you appear
to be of a lower status, you are tolerated but not targeted to go anywhere
from there.
How to Write Your Elevator Speech:
1. Write down a list of all of your accomplishments. Think of them in terms
of how they helped people solve problems - how you eased a company's
pain. Remember accomplishments are not skills. You are not able to use
Excel software. You manage account incomes and expenses for to show
profitability.
2. Answer the following question: “What is the overall category of
transferable skills that encompasses my accomplishments?”
Transferable skills fall into three categories: communications (writing,
graphic design, photography, art), organization of information (accounting,
banking, data entry,) fixing or building things (architect, interior designer,
mechanic, information systems support), etc.
3. Imagine yourself taking one giant step up the ladder and looking down
on this from a higher vantage point - how can you solve a company's pain.
After reviewing the above list, write down what overall problem you can solve
for people in business. How do you solve pain for a company. Give just
enough information that will beg the question, how do you do that? Is it that
you take the headache out of computer systems so that businesses can use
their systems to make more money? (information systems support). Do you
design interior space that draws people to want to hang out there? (interior
designer). Do you make a company’s employees more productive?
(corporate trainer).
4. Write one or two sentences that sum up your response to question #3
for you "elevator speech." The opening line of your speech should be how
you answered item #3. Follow it with what you would say if someone were to
ask you, “How do you do that?”
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance" by clicking here.
Follow Mary Lee's career tips on Twitter.com at StartingOverNow.
For the FREE Worksheets: “Does Your Resume Look Weathered?” and “Six
Ways to Know if This is the Right Company for Me” go to: www.
startingovernow.com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon is a career advice expert who went from being a stay-at-
home mother with four children to divorce, poverty and then on to become a
newspaper reporter, trade association executive director, public relations
consultant, and foundation president and CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career
tips, worksheets and Blog on her website at www.startingovernow.com.
Contact Mary Lee at info@startingovernow.com.
StartingOverNow.com
Articles
| Mary Lee Gannon is interviewed on Mind Your BIZness |
FREE e-book.
Get Mary Lee's FREE
e-book "Make Your
Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by
clicking here. Mary Lee
Gannon's work as a
newspaper reporter,
trade association
executive director,
public relations
consultant,
entrepreneur, and
hospital foundation
president and CEO are
the basis for her free
e-newsletter with tips on
"Starting Over."
Get Mary Lee's FREE
e-book "Make Your
Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by
clicking here. Mary Lee
Gannon's work as a
newspaper reporter,
trade association
executive director,
public relations
consultant,
entrepreneur, and
hospital foundation
president and CEO are
the basis for her free
e-newsletter with tips on
"Starting Over."
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FREE resources on
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* Starting over in
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personal life
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opportunities
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education
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* Setting new life
goals
To chart your road
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click here for FREE
"Worksheets and
Articles."
FREE resources on
this site are:
* Starting over in
their career or
personal life
* Empty nesters
* Entrepreneurs
* Networking
* Job Seekers
* Starting all over
again
* Going through a
divorce
* Looking for career
opportunities
* Seeking FREE
career advice and
education
* Finding mentors
* Setting new life
goals
To chart your road
map to success
click here for FREE
"Worksheets and
Articles."
Mary Lee Gannon's
Book "Starting Over"
will be released in
November of 2009.
Look for it in stores or
order it from
Amazon.com.
Book "Starting Over"
will be released in
November of 2009.
Look for it in stores or
order it from
Amazon.com.
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