This document discusses developing a personal and professional brand through the lens of admissions ambassadors. It provides tips for crafting an effective brand including being a problem solver, gracefully failing when mistakes are made, and being personable. An exercise is described where attendees write their most marketable traits on balloons. Networking advice is given such as having an elevator pitch ready. Key points about being an admissions ambassador, professional, and passionate are highlighted. The modern job search is touched on, advising making it interesting through tools, review, and using a driver's exercise. Breakout sessions are then listed on various career paths.
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Ambassador Branding Workshop
1. Developing Your Personal &
Professional Brand
Farhan Manjiyani | Professional Development & Training Lead
Principal Director | Complex Adaptive Strategy Team | LEI
4. What Makes a Successful Brand?
-Why are these brands recognizable?
-What are people looking for in a product?
5. What is the Brand of Admissions?
Brand of
Admissions
Brand of
Companies
-What is the brand of Admissions?
-What are companies looking for in
people?
6. The Admissions Brand
Problem Solvers
What do you do when you dont know the answer to a question?
Failing Gracefully
What happens when you say an incorrect fact on a tour and
someone calls you out?
Personable People
What is the purpose of saying Welcome to UT!?
7. Brand Exercise
-Blow up a balloon, tie the knot, and write your most marketable
characteristic/trait on the balloon
-Lets see how your brand holds up
8. Networking With the Admissions Brand
Admissions
Ambassador
Professional
Personal
Passionate
Present UT to prospective students through
campus tours
Lead walking tours of the university campus daily
while assisting prospective student groups of
approximately 50 gain an in-depth understanding
of university lifestyle, culture and history
9. Elevator Pitch
You are running late to a job interview and you run into the building and
get in the elevator. Turns out you are next to the CEO of the company.
You have about 30 seconds before he gets out. What do you say?
12. The Modern Job Search
Make It Interesting
Use tools available (Advanced Search, Groups, Following
companies, etc.)
Review and Repeat
Drivers Exercise
16. Breakout Sessions
Law School Wayne Penebaker
Engineering Jerry Diaz
Marketing Bailey Mintz
Med School Jareaux Levingston
Business Kyle Campbell
Education Emily Reding
Advertising/Entertainment Kian Gass
Editor's Notes
#3: Describe how you feel about your professional brand in one word
https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/6ggVdBst23zP3kl
#4: Start off the presentation with just a bunch of logos that we can ask the audience to recognize. Examples are Nike, Facebook, Apple, etc
This will set the stage for then gauging a discussion on the importance of brand recognition
#5: Split them off into groups and get them to brainstorm themselves about what makes a good brand
#6: Talk about what they immediately think of with Admissions and if they can determine what the brand of their future company will be.
Lead into 3 takeaways from Admissions that will set you up for any career.
#14: Split them off into groups and get them to brainstorm themselves about what makes a good brand
#15: Describe how you feel about your professional brand in one word
https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/6ggVdBst23zP3kl