Elevator pitch

A 30-second pitch you can say out loud, from facts you approved.

What you would say when someone asks what you do, written from facts you approved.

Prepare my pitch

What's different

What the pitch is made of, and where it stops.

01Made from facts you approved

The pitch draws on the same Career Record your resumes do, and it is checked against it. A phrase your record does not support is shown to you rather than kept.

02Built to be said out loud

You say it in an introduction or an interview, so it takes a shape that survives speech: who you are, one real thing you did, what you want next. It is fenced out of your documents on purpose.

03Written only when you press the button

Nothing is generated by opening the page. You press the button on the pitch panel, read the result, and rewrite any of it; the wording you keep is the wording that is saved.

The sequence

What has to exist first.

  1. Approve your Career Record

    The pitch is written from approved facts, so it needs some. If you arrive without a record, you build one first and the pitch is the next step after approval.

  2. Press Write my pitch

    On the Career Record's pitch panel. This is the only thing that writes one; arriving from this page only opens the panel.

  3. Edit, say it, time it

    The panel shows roughly how long the pitch takes to say. Rewrite any line in your own words; the saved wording is yours, and you can ask for a fresh draft from your record later.

The argument

Why the pitch stays out of your documents

A resume summary and a spoken introduction do different jobs. The summary has to survive a skim on paper. The pitch has to survive being said to a person who will ask a follow-up question. So the pitch is written as speech, at a spoken length, and it is never inserted into a resume or a letter. A paragraph that reads well aloud reads as padding on the page.

Most people improvise this badly. When somebody asks what you do, you have a version ready that names a real thing you did, in words you already checked against your own record.

The elevator pitch screen, showing a spoken thirty-second introduction written from the approved facts.
Fictional example. The applicant and the employers on this screen are invented, and the pitch is written from that invented record and nothing else.

Have one honest answer ready.

Approve your record once, press the button, and rewrite the result in your own words.

Prepare my pitch

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The pitch is written from the facts you approved and checked against them. It is a draft for you to say, not a script an employer grades, and Handmade Resume makes no interview promises.

Questions about the pitch

Is the pitch generated automatically when I open the page?
No. The Career Record's pitch panel has a button that writes it. Until you press it, nothing is generated.
Does the pitch go into my resume or cover letter?
No, and it cannot be inserted into either. Your resume and letter are written from the facts themselves, not from the pitch.
What do I need before I can write one?
An approved Career Record with at least one approved fact. The pitch is written from those facts and checked against them.
Can I rewrite it?
Yes. Edit any wording and save it; the panel keeps your version. If you later ask for a fresh draft from your record, it asks before replacing the wording you wrote.
How long is it?
About thirty seconds spoken. The panel shows an estimate for the text you have, so you can trim it to the length you want.

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