When you apply for a job, what is your top-selling sales pitch?

“I can make shit work”

@petergriffin this would turn me off hiring you. No insult meant though.

"I'm too slow and lazy to really get away with anything... and if push came to shove you could probably catch me as I'm not very fast."

"My hobbies are programming".

shouldnt it be "here's my portfolio"?

One that sounds as little like a sales pitch as possible, i.e. not artificial.

For anyone not old enough, "the boys from the blackstuff"

None. Never needed one.

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Personality, a good charisma and people skills take mfkers a long way, the credentials speak for themselves and I have recommendations.

My sales pitch is more of a social engineering play than anything else.

I am also eye candy 😘 that helps too

I am a magician

Your a wizard, @jak645.

Sales pitch?! I'm a dev, I just answer questions honestly and to the best of my ability - I then try to think of some interesting and revealing questions to ask. I ain't here to sell myself, and I'd probably just sound desperate if I did.

I leave the sales pitch to the sales and marketing guys. Winging it by spouting BS is more their department, anyway.

@bad-frog Good point. Haha.

@AlmondSauce @AlmondSauce If you're going to be a consultant, you'd need a sales pitch. Even so, you live in a world full of competition, so how are you going to distinguish yourself by appearing normal?

@CaptainRant I distinguish myself by my experience, my qualifications, my ability to answer interview questions correctly & concisely (as much as I can), succinctly explain my abilities, and equally my ability to *ask* interesting questions as well as answer them.

None of that requires a sales pitch. I've been in interviews where devs give an uninvited sales pitch of their career so far, why they're amazing, why we'd be stupid not to hire them, etc. - it's the most egotistical and off putting thing going.

"I speak three languages"

@thirdworld LoL, that's too common. My friend speaks 7.

@CaptainRant not in a third world, tell you that mutch

@AleCx04 this guy gets it.

@CaptainRant imaginary friends don't count.