Elevator pitches!

[randomling]

This is the last of today's spam. I swear.

I'm trying to write an elevator pitch for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, to help me to reach my network on social media and maybe find work that way. (I'm really, really desperate for a job at this point.)

The thing about an elevator pitch, though, is the first thing they say is that it should be built around what makes you unique. And I have... literally no idea what makes me unique, especially in an admin-job sense. I don't feel like I'm unique at all! There are hundreds or thousands of people in London who can do what I do. So it's hard to figure out how to write an elevator pitch that isn't super-generic.

I did end up writing a list of things about me, but I'm not sure how much that helped.

Guys, if you have a moment, I'd love to hear one thing that you think is cool, or unusual, or even unique about me. (If you don't know, or you don't have a moment, don't worry!) Maybe that will help me figure out what to put in this elevator pitch thing.

Comments

[randomling]

Wow. That was knock-my-socks-off lovely to read. And so useful! Thank you.

[staranise]

*g* IME, personality traits are hard to pin down and define. On the other hand, if you look around at the things you do naturally that other people just don't, skills pop right out. It's why I don't like what the university experience does to people--everyone does the same job with the same tools in the same class, so they think that their skills are easy, ubiquitous, and non-unique. Meanwhile, outside of that class, most people in the work force have never heard of X skill or procedure before. So education teaches us, falsely, that we aren't valuable or unique.

When I was working as an admin assistant and I had to handle a hundred files that all needed the same process, I automatically took out post-it notes, wrote a step of the process on each, and designated stacks for the files to go through to physically designate where in the process they were. My co-worker was trying to just remember all 100 of them. Skill: Naturally creates efficient office procedures that streamline the process and easily communicates information.