{"id":655,"date":"2015-03-09T02:29:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T02:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=655"},"modified":"2015-03-09T02:29:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T02:29:05","slug":"selling-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/selling-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over spring break I had an amazing opportunity to sell myself. I made a trip to Connecticut for an intensive round of interviews. Additionally, after the interviews, I gave a presentation to a panel on a topic of my choice. \u00a0I talked with numerous individuals from multiple departments, all looking for certain things in my ability and my personality. You see, selling yourself is much more than selling your skills or your personality. You must have essential interviewing skills to convey your skills and your personality.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First and most importantly is interview experience. This was one of my first corporate interviews, and very intensive at that. Experience removes the tension and allows you to more carefully think out your answers. Not just recalling situations for behavioral questions but lengthening answers for more closed ended questions.<\/li>\n<li>Once your comfortable, being open becomes much easier. When your nervous, less emotion is expressed in your answers, besides nervousness of course. This allows the interviewers to read you much better, which is essential to the process.<\/li>\n<li>Obviously you need to convey your skills by talking about your experiences. This requires preparation, but you also must talk about yourself. In my interviews, I hesitated on some of the more personal questions, trying to focus on the professional. This was a mistake. Opening up not only allows them to get to know you better, but it breaks the ice for everyone in the room.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Going into the interview, have prepared answers to the common questions. Also, read up on the business so you aren&#8217;t stumped of they ask you something about it. Most importantly, know why you see yourself fit for the position and what you can offer the company from there. Eagerness is essential, but it must have direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over spring break I had an amazing opportunity to sell myself. I made a trip to Connecticut for an intensive round of interviews. Additionally, after the interviews, I gave a presentation to a panel on a topic of my choice. \u00a0I talked with numerous individuals from multiple departments, all looking for certain things in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}