TedX: How To Sell Yourself(Jack Wagner)
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📌 Jack Wagner discusses the importance of selling yourself and making career choices based on your passions and strengths.
Highlights
- 🗒️ In eighth grade, Wagner wrote a report about becoming a systems engineer with IBM, and eight years later, he got that job.
- 🏀 Wagner shares examples of classmates who followed their passions, such as one becoming a prominent filmmaker and another becoming Bruce Springsteen’s drummer.
- 🤝 Companies look for communication skills, time management abilities, and ethics in hiring candidates.
- 🗺️ Wagner suggests creating a “selling yourself roadmap” to understand and document your career plan, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and goals.
- 📇 He emphasizes the importance of effectively marketing yourself through resumes, networking, cover letters, and professional development.
