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Thank you for the feedback. For this assignment, I decided to focus on tech adoption/training where I have most of my experience. I am exploring ways to expand that to other parts of the organization when I job search post-graduation. As I shared privately, I am straddling the differences between education, training, and enablement but I lean strongly to remaining in the corporate sector - not higher ed or K-12 - although teaching at community colleges that offer work development and lifelong learning programs are also appealing.
As far as training credibility is concerned, your video certainly achieves it. There are lots of things I like about your video. Your enthusiasm, how you intertwine your resume experience, and your use of storytelling to sell yourself. The business card prop adds a really nice touch! Where mine comes off as a sales pitch, yours comes off as a real video interview of sorts.
I like how warm and conversational your style is. I think it connects the viewer to your message even though it is recorded. I agree with Dr Riccioni that your point about transitions is good. I like how you end with a quick summary of your experience and a call to action to give you the opportunity. If this were a live video conference, I would say it was a good interview.
I get your point Eddie. I still had 20 seconds left before a minute, but I felt a pitch was what I wanted to record. Like any sales pitch, it should be followed by a conversation. To be honest, I might have been influenced by enabling sales people at work all that week. We are always working with the limitation that sometimes you don't get more than 5 minutes to pitch, gather needs, show product, and close with a call to action.
Interesting! It's true in America most business cards aren't exchanged until a bit of conversation has transpired. I will share though, at a career network training I took a long time ago (before LinkedIN for sure), I was taught that at networking events you should wear a jacket with pockets, put your cards on the left one, and as soon as you shake hands with the right hand, you reach and give your card with the left after you shake.