A 13-minute talk for the class that just graduated
You have one product
to sell tomorrow.
It’s you.
Don Pieta walks a room full of new graduates through the part nobody prepares them for — the gap between the diploma in your hand and the job in your future. Six parts, thirteen minutes, no filler.
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“Here is the thing about an excellent product with nobody selling it. It sits on the shelf.”
What’s in the talk
Six parts,
in order.
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The day after
Your first assignment starts the morning after the ceremony — not next week. Why a resume is an argument rather than a transcript, and why you need several of them.
1:55The mirror
The nine interview questions everybody gets asked, the four-step answer that handles the hardest one, and the practice nobody wants to do.
3:04Month seven
Still looking, and starting to take it personally. What to change at month one, and the blunter list for the month you stop feeling patient.
5:19The doors nobody points at
Whole careers that never come up at a career fair — and the training routes where you carry no tuition debt and are paid the entire time.
7:00Hired
8:58 for a 9:00 start, and the rest of what the first months on the job ask of you that nobody writes down.
8:30
Part three
Nothing is
wrong with you.
Month seven is where most job hunts quietly break. The talk spends real time there — not on encouragement, but on the specific list of things to change when the search has stopped moving.
The long version
The talk is
the trailer.
The book is
the manual.
Everything in these thirteen minutes comes out of Tips on Getting a Job for the College Graduate — 174 pages, every one of them a cartoon panel, covering the resume, the search, the interview and your first days on the job.
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