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Backstory: Two ways to pitch your experience

Backstory: Two ways to pitch your experience

From the course: Pitching Yourself for Opportunity

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Backstory: Two ways to pitch your experience

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- There are two ways to think about your backstory. You've either got relevant experience or you have transferable skills. Relevant experience means you've done something before that's related to what you want to do next. Transferable skills are skills that are not related to a specific experience. For example, I went from the Peace Corps to Goldman Sachs and from the EPA to Exxon Mobil. I didn't have relevant experience going from government to Wall Street, or government to corporate America. But here's what I do have, I have transferable skills. I am a big picture thinker by nature, I live at 30,000 feet, I am strategic, I ask the right questions. And that was what I sold myself on whether I was talking to Wall Street, whether I was talking to corporate America and, frankly, those are the skills I use today running a leadership development firm. Our instinct is to always look backwards and think about relevant experience.…

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