ONE COULD BE BETTER PREPARED TO PITCH THEMSELVES WITH A WELL PREPARED AND REHEARSED AELFINTRO-AS CARNIGIE SAID ONLY THE PRACTICED DESERVE TO BE CONFIDENT!

1. Self-Introduction
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2. Why is Self-introduction
important?
• Allows others to know
• Breaks the ice!
• Sets the tone for conversations
• Makes the people involved understand each other
• Facilitates warmth- a feel good factor.
• Could be the first question you may be asked, in general!
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3. How to make a good Self-introduction?
• To be specific, talking about him/her
• Relevant for the receiver or audience
• To be in an order-chronological/priority
• Make an impact in a shortest possible time
• To be interesting too!
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4. What details are essential
for a good self-intro?
• Name, family details, education, skills &
interests, hobbies.
• Academic strengths/core skills/ additional
skills
• Projects
• Internships
Relevant for the receiver or audience.
• What has brought you there? The purpose!
• Common interests, if any!
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5. QUESTIONS to facilitate self-intro
• Tell me about yourself? TMAY
• About family?
• Tell about your achievements?
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6. Career readiness and vison/road map
responses
• Goals set?
• Short term/ long term
• Road map
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7. Specific goals-SMART
Long
term
Mid
term
Short
term
• Goals need to be as specific clear
& measurable as possible.
• Specific goals are always better
than vague or general goals for
example Such as doing your best
better or working harder etc.
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9. Now, classify the above under the following categories:
Sl. No Category Short Term Mid term Long Term Life long
1 Careers
2 Passion
3 Education
4 Family
5 Finance
6 Social & Community
7 Physical, emotional & Spiritual
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10. Road Map
15 to 20 years
10 to 12 years
7 to 8 years
4 Years
2 Years
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11. Personal Visioning / Goals
• What drives/motivates you?
• If I ask your friends about you. What quality of you would they
mention?
• Quote an incident or experience which supports your career
objective.
• What are your important achievements?
• Where you want to be 5 years from now?
• Three years from now where would you be?
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12. Tell me your positives and negatives
• Ideally 5 : 2 is suggested
• Awareness is checked.
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13. Questions: Team skills
• Can you recall a situation when you completely disagreed with the
way your team was working? What did you do then?
• Have you ever been a member of a team that broke up because it was
impossible to work with one another? What was your position?
• How do you deal with conflicts / disagreements / misunderstandings
while working as group?
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