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Connect the dots for your audience

Connect the dots for your audience

From the course: Pitching Yourself for Opportunity

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Connect the dots for your audience

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- The last piece of your pitch, part three is connecting the dots. Bring it all together for me. Tell me why or how this makes sense. Bring your past, your present, and your future together, or tell me why this opportunity is right for you and why it's right in this very moment. You have to be the one to make sense of your entire story, not leave me wondering why you want to do something, why you are qualified, or leaving me with doubts as to do your destination and backstory really fit together. For me personally, when I was heading to Wall Street and I had to think about my pitch really deeply, my destination was the fact that I thought investment banking was this really interesting combination of big picture thinking strategy combined within the weeds finance. My backstory was that I am by nature a big picture thinker. That's what comes naturally to me, and by training, I had just gotten my MBA, I had nailed the…

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