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Agenda Leveraging your brand Leveraging your network Getting Paid Leveraging your application 2

Starting Salary PercentilesMastersDoctorate 90 th $92,000$100, th $70,00$90, th $64,000$78, th $50,000$72, th $47,000$60,200 3 *SIOP 2012 Income and Employment Survey Results for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

The 4 P’s of Marketing Product: Goods and Services Price: What the Goods and Services Cost Place: Distribution Promotion: Advertising 4

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Building Your Brand  What words do you want associated with you?  What are your strengths?  What problems can you solve?  What’s your value add? 6

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8 Wanberg, C. R., Kanfer, R., & Banas, J. T. (2000). Predictors and outcomes of networking intensity among unemployed job seekers. Journal of Applied Psychology, 85,

 It’s Not Who You Know  It’s Not Who Knows You  It’s About Who Knows You & Knows What You Know 9

Leveraging Your Network 10

Common Mistakes 11 Not differentiated Don’t explain how their experience is a good fit for the job opening Don’t show enough interest or excitement Focus too much on what they want instead of what the interviewer is saying Believe they can wing it Source:

What Top Companies Want 12 PassionLearning OrientationProven Effectiveness

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Proactive Behaviors 14