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Pitch Your Potential : The Formula for Winning Dream Jobs, Awards, and Elite Opportunities.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Vicki.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self-presentation.
- Self-realization.
- Courage.
- Success in business.
- Success.
- Career development.
- Vocational guidance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2026.
- Summary:
- Become the unexpected candidate who lands ultra-competitive career and academic opportunities.We all want to compete at the highest level in our careers and land dream opportunities.But what do we do when the number and caliber of competitors are high, and others tell us we don't have any chance of getting selected?.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- My Story
- How the MATCH ME Formula® Was Born
- Chapter 1 Build Your Winner's Mindset: Prepare with Confidence, Compete Without Fear
- Embrace Your Fear of Failure and Rejection
- Negate the Impact of Gatekeepers
- Deliberate Gatekeeping
- Well-Intentioned Gatekeeping
- Listen to Guides, Not Gatekeepers
- Lower Your Fear of Comparison
- Develop Your Winner's Mindset
- It's Not a Numbers Game
- The Advantage of Authentic Desire
- Writing a Compelling Personal Pitch
- Your Winning Application Story
- The MATCH ME Formula®
- Key Takeaways
- How to Use This Book
- Chapter 2 Become Memorable: Stick in the Minds of the Selection Committee
- Why Being Memorable Matters
- Five Factors of Positive Memorability
- Get a Referral from a Mutual Contact
- Make a Self-Introduction to a Selector
- Propose a Memorable Idea
- Use Memorable Anecdotes from Your Life
- Start Practicing
- Your Turn
- Chapter 3 Align Your Mission with Theirs: Win Trust by Championing Their Cause
- Why Mission Alignment Matters
- What the Organization's Mission Is
- What the Organization's Mission Is Not
- How to Demonstrate Mission Alignment
- Research the Organization's Mission
- Define Your Personal Mission
- Show Mission Alignment
- Your Personal Mission Is a Journey, Not a Destination
- Chapter 4 Make Your Goals Timely: Prove Your Impact Can't Wait
- Why Timeliness Matters
- Demonstrate Timeliness by Incorporating Current Events
- Demonstrate Timeliness Through Urgency
- Chapter 5 Capitalize on the Organization's Unique Benefits: Turn Their Brag Points into Your Bonus Points
- Why Capitalizing on the Organization's Unique Benefits Matters
- How to Find the Organization's Unique Benefits.
- Ways to Capitalize on the Organization's Unique Benefits
- Make the Organization the "Hero" of Your Application Story
- Chapter 6 Be Highly Specific: Use Detail That Captivates Selectors
- Why Specificity and Detail Matter
- Replace Platitudes and Jargon
- Adding Words for Greater Specificity
- Removing Words for Greater Specificity
- Create a Highly Specific Career Goal
- The MATCH ME Career Goal
- When You Don't Have a Specific Career Goal
- Proposing Highly Specific Projects
- Obtain Highly Specific References
- Chapter 7 Make Your Pitch Mutually Beneficial: Show How You Win When They Win
- Why Mutual Benefit Matters
- How to Express Your Personal Needs
- Define Your Need for Financial Benefits
- Express Your Need for Educational Benefits
- Show Your Need for Network Benefits
- Paying the Benefits Forward
- Chapter 8 Master Elegance: Balance Your Tone with Self-Confidence and Humility
- What Elegance Is and Why It Matters
- How a Winner's Mindset Creates Elegance
- Nix Calling Yourself the "Best" Candidate
- Recognize That Accomplishments Are Evidence, Not Self-Praise
- Have Empathy for Your Selectors
- Chapter 9 Apply the MATCH ME Formula®: Put the Full Formula to Work in Your Pitch
- How to Create Your Winning Application Story
- Three Frameworks to Help You Apply the MATCH ME Formula®
- A MATCH ME Formula® Cover Letter
- A MATCH ME Formula® Personal Statement
- MATCH ME Formula® Interview Prep
- Guiding Questions to Apply the MATCH ME Formula®
- We Believe in You
- References
- Work with Me
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Index
- EULA.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-394-32827-3
- 9781394328277
- OCLC:
- 1564841010
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