Here is the 5th video in the Interview Skills series.
Are you genuinely excited about this new role – don’t be scared about expressing yourself!
Passionate commitment is vital for showing your interviewers how much you care about this role, that organisation or this idea. If you don’t sound enthusiastic they will find it hard to believe that you will be committed to them or the role.
Strengthen your ability to be seen and heard
Amplify your ability to influence
Cultivate the grace to lead.
The answer – Story. There is a piece of literary and anthropological research by ‘Significant Objects’. The team bought nik-naks from charity shops and hosted them on e-bay for sale. Each item was originally bought for less than $1.25. It goes without saying, that nothing sold. With the help of 200 writers, provenance stories were…
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