Week 2 - Learning to sell yourself

Session: Learning to sell yourself

Session objective: This session explains how self-promoting is different from bragging.

Learn to sell yourself slides

Exercise (20 min)

Exercise objective: To turn arguments with a negative connotation into positive ones.

Let's spin this! Get into groups to brainstorm more positive spins on the following sentences. Then come back and share with the class and put together some great answer on a white board.

• I am currently working in a different sector

• I am a stay-at-home parent so have not worked for ten years

• I don’t have any experience in software development

• I don’t enjoy the job I am currently doing

• My English is not very good