Teaching Kids to Toot Their Own Horn

Many applicants say they don’t like to “brag” about their accomplishments in an interview.  We get that.

Not everyone feels comfortable talking about themselves and their accomplishments and worse saying how you would be better than someone else.  Tooting your own horn has a bad name.

Many applicants say they don’t want to SELL THEMSELVES in an interview because its uncomfortable for them.  We get this too.

That’s why is good to go through the exercise asking your son or daughter – what’s great about you? Why would a company want to hire you?  Utilizing their experiences either through sports, work, academics where they wanted something and went after it and got it.  What skills or attributes did they use to achieve this goal?  Then build the story around it.  

When you tell your individual story in an interview of something you did and the result which exhibits your claim to have a certain attribute; you have just sold yourself and done a little bragging….without it even hurting.   In order to be able to tell your story you must first know your story.