Be The Most Interesting Person In The World - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Be The Most Interesting Person In The World - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Since we were children, weve been taught to be humble. Even at work, weve been taught to ask about others rather than talk about ourselves. Religion calls talking about ourselves as pride and many religions consider it a sin. Its no wonder we have a tough time making ourselves look interesting when searching for a job. Our training in humbleness extended to our resume, as weve been taught to brand ourselves as qualified rather than extraordinary. Even the core of our body of knowledge of job search, taught to us by our college/grad school placement office, taught us to look just like everyone else. Our college placement office had a different goal than we did their goal was to brand the school to employers, as a provider of a consistent quality of entry level worker. Thats why they taught us a standard resume format and refused to accept resumes that deviated from their standard format. Our colleges taught us to write a resume that would make us look the same as everyone else, because they were branding themselves as producing a consistent product us. But that doesnt help your job search it didnt then and it especially doesnt now. What we learned as children and from our college placement offices has taught us to be humble, not brag about ourselves and to describe ourselves as being the same as everyone else. Weve been taught to describe ourselves as the opposite of interesting. Weve been taught to present ourselves as boring. So how can you unlearn what we were all taught? Here are 4 ways to be the most interesting person in the world Recognition: Before you can describe yourself as interesting, you need to recognize the things that make you interesting, that make you different from other candidates. You likely have a number of work-related aspects that youre great at things you do better than just about anyone else. You likely have a number of non-work related things that make you interesting what you like to do in your free time that youre really good at. Stop Being Humble: Your resume and interviews are no place to be humble. Your goal shouldnt be to appear the same as other candidates, it shouldnt be to show youre qualified. Instead, your goal in resume writing and interviews should be to tell employers how different you are that youre an interesting and a superior candidate. Stop Being Afraid: This goes back to our childhood, where we were scolded or punished for talking about ourselves we were taught that its impolite. In regular conversation, bragging about ourselves is impolite. But when youre searching for a job, the rules change. In job search, its critical to talk about yourself by showing how youre the solution to an employers specific problems. You need to talk about yourself, demonstrating how youre unique, a superior candidate and interesting. Stay Away From Being The Same: Youre not the same as everyone else. So dont describe yourself as the same as others, when youre job searching. Seek out the things that make you different and bring them up in your resume and interviews. The rules are different for job search. If you cant talk about yourself, how can you convince an employer that youre the person for the job. So ignore what you were taught as a child, what you learned in Sunday School and what your college placement office taught you. Discover what makes you different, unique and superior and talk about it. Author: Phil Rosenberg is President of http://www.reCareered.com, a leading job search information website and gives complimentary job search webinars at http://ResumeWebinar.com. Phil also runs the Career Central group, one of Linkedin’s largest groups for job seekers and has built one of the 20 largest personal networks on Linkedin globally.