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Quintessential Careers Content Index:
Storytelling in Job-Search, Career Development

 

Our comprehensive Content Index enables you to locate articles, tutorials, quizzes, and worksheets related to job-seeker career storytelling topics.

 

Read summaries of each piece of our content pertaining to job-seeker career and job-search storytelling to determine whether you'd like to click on the link and learn more. The Index leads off with the most recent content items at the top, so you know where to find the freshest and most up-to-date content; however, there are also items for which we have no publication date -- and these are located at the end of the list.

 

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Tell An Exciting Story to Communicate the Value of Your Personal Brand
By: Nancy J. Miller
Published: 2012, Nov. 5
Summary: The idea of branding is to your give audience something to remember about you; job-seekers can do this by developing stories that communicate value of brand.

 

Use Stories to Prove Your Skills
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2011, Sept. 12
Summary: How do you convince employers that you possess the skills required to perform a job you want -- especially if you are changing careers and have not yet demonstrated your skills in your targeted career? By telling stories about how you've effectively use those skills in other contexts. This article tells you why and how to do so.

 

Surefire Cover Letter Technique: Incorporating Stories
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2009, March 9
Summary: Learn stories job-seekers can tell in cover letters, including how to write them, and free examples of each type. Excerpted from the book, Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling to Get a Job and Propel Your Career.

 

Plotting the Story of Your Ideal Career
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2007, March 26
Summary: If you're confused about what to do with your career -- or what to do next with your career -- and you haven't gained insight from taking assessments, there is another way. You can learn more about yourself, gain insight into the best career for you, and plot out how to get there through creating stories.

 

Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling that Propels Careers
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2006, Nov. 20
Summary: Reasons that storytelling is especially appropriate in the job hunt, excerpted from the book of the same title.

 

Demonstrate Your Problem-Solving Skills in the Job Interview
By: Frank Traditi
Published: 2006, Aug. 29
Summary: One of the best ways to answer interview questions is to use your career success stories. Career success stories are tales of the defining moments in your career when you overcame significant challenges to succeed. These stories create a memorable impression and give the listener anecdotes about you that identify your ability to handle the tasks at hand, solve complex problems and provide a solution.

 

Using Career Success Stories in Interviews and Networking
By: Frank Traditi
Published: 2005, Aug. 29
Summary: An easy, three-step process to put the pieces together for your success stories when you get the opportunity to tell them in interviews and networking.

 

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