Mar
04
Job Seekers
Posted by Lisa | Posted on 04-03-2009
Last night I moderated a panel entitled, Your Next Career Move – How to Market Yourself, to a sold-out audience of New York area Penn alumni who are in job/career transition. Our panelists, Michael Melcher, Rebecca Hornstein Doede, Alan Cutter and Dinah Day, contributed great content.
Some of the key take-away points included:
- Imagine the conversation you’d like people to have about you after you leave the room.
- Understand who you are and what your achievements have been. Have clarity about your key competencies and skills.
- Make sure that your skill set matches the job that you’re interviewing for.
- Thinking of ourselves as “just the job” is limiting; instead, think about the values that reflect who you are.
- Informational interviews are the best way to find out about particular companies. Be clear on what it is that you want from the interviewer!
When you attend an event such as this one, come prepared with what you want to take away as a result of being in the audience. The more clarity you have about what you want, the more likely you are to get it.
