The 30-Second Pitch: Why You Need an Elevator Pitch (And How AI Can Help)
Sonia Malik
Workforce Development Leader | AI Education Influencer| Co-active Coach | Multiplier | Corporate Social Responsibility
Whether you're a seasoned professional or a high school student just starting out, having a concise and compelling elevator pitch is essential in today's fast-paced world. An elevator pitch is a brief overview of your background, experience, and goals that you can deliver in the time it might take to ride an elevator - typically 30 seconds or less.
The Power of the Elevator Pitch
An effective elevator pitch serves multiple purposes:
1. Networking: It allows you to quickly introduce yourself and share your value proposition with new contacts in a clear, memorable way.
2. Job Interviews: Many interviews start with the classic "Tell me about yourself" prompt. An elevator pitch is the perfect lead-in to discuss your qualifications.
3. Business Meetings: Need to explain your role or pitch an idea? An elevator pitch lays the groundwork.
4. Personal Branding: It succinctly captures your unique strengths and helps shape how others perceive you.
For students, having an elevator pitch demonstrates preparedness, confidence, and the ability to market yourself - invaluable skills for college admissions and future careers.
Crafting Your Pitch with AI Assistance
Creating a powerful 30-second pitch is challenging. You have to distill your background, goals, and unique selling points into just a few lines. That's where AI writing assistants like Grammarly, Quillbot, ChatGPT, Jasper etc can be invaluable tools.
These tools are AI trained in communication, so they can analyze your draft elevator pitch and provide feedback to make it punchier, more persuasive, and better tailored to your audience. For example, they could suggest alternate phrasings, recommend which credentials to highlight, identify any jargon to avoid, and ensure your pitch is both comprehensive and concise.
These tools cannot independently write your entire elevator pitch from scratch. The AI requires the human's initial input about their background, experience and objectives and acts as an expert communication coach to elevate your self-marketing pitch.
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The Next Step? Practice!
Of course, delivering your pitch confidently is just as vital as crafting the content. I recommend writing your pitch out in full, then practicing it out loud, with feedback from AI and human peers. Solicit ways to improve your clarity, presence and flow.
With a finely tuned elevator pitch, you'll be prepared to make great first impressions, win people over quickly, and open up new opportunities - whether you're in the office, on campus, or just starting a conversation.
What's your unique elevator pitch?
Use the new IBM SkillsBuild micro-learning modules to help you leverage an AI assistant to collaborate with you to create one that you're truly proud to share with the world.
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Programs Director, 1M1B | Futurist & Youth for SDGs Champion | Co-chair, UN DGC Youth Representatives Steering Committee
8 个月This is great Sonia. Thanks for sharing. I just completed this activity on SkillsBuild. This is something we will definitely take to students in the new academic year. Pitching is a big component of our program
Program Manager, IBM SkillsBuild, Corporate Social Responsibility - The comments and posts made are personal opinions
8 个月Useful tips. Thanks for sharing!