This telephone presentation is a great idea to use when you are making a direct call to a potential employer who may have a suitable vacancy or job opening, to help you win the job. In other words you are making an investigatory call to an employer you hope may have an opening for someone with your blend of skills and talents.
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Prepare your Telephone Presentation
Using the work that you did on your
skills analysis together with your
personal marketing statements you should prepare a brief presentation to help you find the right words when you talk to the right person at the potential employer's organization.
This must include enough specific information about you to arouse their interest, while at the same time leaving enough room to encourage questions.
If you can make the employer want to know more, and arouse their interest, you will have a better chance of meeting your objectives. Because when they start asking questions it means they have at least some interest.
This is what I mean by the power of using the telephone to make a presentation to a prospective employer.
Your telephone presentation should cover 3 areas:
- Who you are and what you do;
- A description of selected achievements;
- Reason for the call and a request to meet.
Try this for an example of good phone power:
“Good afternoon Mr Packard, thank you for taking my call, my name is Anthony Walker.
I am a very versatile manager experienced in the purchasing of mechanical digger equipment spares.
In my last job I cut expenditure on purchased equipment by 11% overall and reduced the value of stock held in store by 25%
I’m calling because I know Heavy Plant Limited are expanding at the moment and feel I may well have some specific skills to offer you.
Are these the sorts of achievements you would be interested in?”
When you end with this sort of question you should get a positive response, and this in turn starts a conversation.
This use of a telephone presentation can give you a massive head start in the job search stakes; it has the advantage of immediacy and allows you to respond to any new question they might want to ask straight away.
This means they are less likely to want to talk to other candidates, or spend time setting up interviews, if you appear to be the answer to their needs!
You can also follow this phone power guide when preparing to make a network call.
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