Elevator Story Structure and a Sample

on January 16, 2010 Comments (0)

At its most basic level, the Elevator Story’s structure is:

Hi, my name is ___________. I’m in the _______________ field, and I’m looking to_____________________.

The last blank would be filled in with your current career aspiration, whether it is to stay within your field and move up or move into a different career. Here’s a slightly more embellished example: Greetings.

My name is Indra Ghee. I’m an accomplished, published, senior-level scientist with 12 years of experience in molecular biology.

Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling that Propels Careers, Quintessential Careers Press, ISBN-10: 1-934689-00-9. Find out the ways you can own the entire book.

This blog serializes the first edition of the book, Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling that Propels Careers (shown below). It is a blog-within-a-blog, and its parent blog is A Storied Career.

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You can read the first edition of Tell Me About Yourself on this blog, as follows (Follow each chapter sequentially through the dates after the opening entries for each chapter):