Your 60-Second Sales Pitch
Develop your 60-second summary of your professional development. (About 8 sentences of 10 to 12 words per sentence will be a perfect outline).
- Make sure the first sentence and the last sentence are powerful and convincing.
- Start with your education, early positions, and work toward your current position.
- Say why you made choices, including your excitement about meeting with this company. Explain why you have chosen your career path and the benefit it offers to your future employer.
- Make sure you include two or three people skills and two or three technical skills that relate to the position you are seeking.
- Show examples that demonstrate your strengths and people skills.
- Remember to have a dynamite-closing sentence.
- The maximum time for the sales pitch is 60 seconds. Read your sales pitch, memorize it, and time yourself. 30 to 40 seconds practice is perfect because real-life is 50% longer.
How and when to use your 60-second sales pitch:
1. Use your 60-second sales pitch at the beginning of your interview. Use at the beginning of the interview whets the interviewer’s appetite.
2. Use at the end of the interview ensures that the interviewer remembers your strongest capabilities. At the close of the interview say, “Thank you for this opportunity to meet with you, let me summarize for you the skills I bring to this position” and use your 60-second sales pitch.
3. The interviewer says, “pleased tell me about yourself .”
4. Use when the interviewer asks,
- “Why should I hire you?”
- “What are your strengths?”
- “Why do you want this job?”
- “What are your qualifications?”
- “Why do you think you will succeed in this position?”
- “How would you describe yourself?”
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