Pitch your Talent
The Art of Pitching can be applied in versatile ways.
A startup founder might use the techniques to convince customers or investors. A project manager might benefit from the sales-oriented nature of the pitch when presenting project results to the board of directors. The clear structure pitches have can be helpful for the academic preparing a conference presentation. The pitching method can also be what a jobseeker needs to land that next opportunity.
To help you develop your jobseeker’s pitch, I outlined some key steps below and prepared a worksheet for you to download for free below.
Misfits? No, trailblazers.
Back in early 2019, I asked a group of women in Namibia what holds back female entrepreneurs in technology. Lack of confidence, they said, and self-limiting beliefs. And it’s no wonder - the lack of female representation in technology can make any woman in the space think that they don’t belong. Self-limiting beliefs, while common, feel especially prevalent in countries in southern Africa, where traditional gender roles and cultural norms persist.
Startup Culture from North to South and back - and why I do what I do
If it's still there, alive and kicking after you've left, you might have been a part of creating something sustainable.
That's what I thought when I was beaming with pride earlier this week attending Investing and partnering with African Innovators in Helsinki, Finland. I saw my previous colleagues implement an event idea I had been a part of conceptualizing and it went brilliantly.
Ordinary women, extraordinary resilience
Yesterday I attended an event at the Southbank Centre during which Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton discussed their newly released book, The Book of Gutsy Women: Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience, interviewed by Mary Beard. My interest in the book piqued since I had recently worked on a project where we at SAIS Programme together with Hivos Southern Africa aimed to understand the female experience in technology entrepreneurship in Southern Africa. I was curious to learn who the 100 women Rodham Clinton and Clinton had selected for their work were and if any African women had made the cut – but to be honest I was looking for some personal inspiration, too.