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CAP your elevator pitch
30 seconds fly by really fast, here is a three-point framework to CAP your pitch:
- Concise English (or whatever language) - use words with less syllables
- Absolutely needed info only - more info can be found in the next point of contact
- Please the audience - what info do they want to hear?
Remember the purpose of pitching is to get them to the next point of contact (a rep, the website, the brochure, etc). Having less is more, and keep the focus sharp, like lasers with sharks.
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Make sure your resume is on PAR
It's that time of year again: Labour Day. And many people are celebrating by joining or shuffling around the labour force. Several people have approached me to help them edit their resumes, and I thought that I would share another one of my funky frameworks with everyone to help them pimp their resume.
The purpose of a resume is to get you the first interview, not the job. Depending on the mood of the reviewer, how large the stack of resumes is, and of course, how well your resume is written, a review typically takes as little as 3 seconds. To help the reviewer ascertain a great and accurate impression in this small timeframe, the descriptions for your resume entries need to be on PAR
- Position - describe your job - does not have to be same as job title.
- Activity - what tasks did you do? How did you do it?
- Results - what was accomplished? What did you learn?
Example: Chief Transporter, Thinkpanda
- Driving - transported team to locations across Canada and US, evaded police and always got meetings safely on time.
- Logistics - planned out routes and mapped out shortcuts, reduced travel time by 40% compared to Google Map estimations.
- Research - investigated new technologies to improve driving experience - traction control variation, HUD complementary display, roll-cage.
- Development - performed modifications and maintenance to vehicle - ECU programming, turbocharger configuration, extra ethanol fuel tank.
You may apply the PAR to any description entry: skills summary, job descriptions, volunteer activities, etc. Remember that the review is also human - use concise language. While your writing is on PAR, make sure your content makes you look above par. Get it? Har har, ok enough for today. Good luck with your job hunts!
P.S. - interested in what Thinkpanda is doing? Email us at hr@thinkpanda.com and we promise to spend more than 3 seconds looking at it :3
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