How to sell yourself

How to sell yourself!

1. How to sell yourself
- 1.1 Subscription
- 1.2 Keep up to date
2. Your brief description
- 2.2 Make it work for you
3. Your CV

How to sell yourself

Every day, more Sellers register on all the people4 sites. So every day, there are more people with skills like yours for Buyers to search through.

You need to make sure that your details get a Buyer’s attention immediately.

Subscription

Subscribing to people4 is an excellent way to stand out from the crowd.

As a subscriber, you get priority placement in Buyers’ searches – so are far more likely to gain contracts. As well as this, you benefit from twice as much space in your brief description.

To find out more about the benefits of subscribing, take a look at our subscription page.

Keep up to date

It’s vital that you update your skills as you learn new competencies and, in particular, that you update your availability as you get new contracts or finish old ones.

Check that your skills list is up to date and that you’ve focused on your key skills and not those that aren’t relevant.

If you’ve got a skill that isn't on the list, we are happy to add it to our database

seller@people4business.com

We want to make sure that our Buyers don’t waste their time contacting Sellers whose details are inaccurate. So, we’re giving priority to you, if you’re keeping up to date. In Buyer search results, we’ll list our subscribers, first, in order of most recent access to the site; then, we’ll list non-subscribed Sellers, in order of most recent access to the site.

Your brief description

The ‘brief description’ at the top of your CV contains the most important words you write on people4business. When Buyers search through skills categories and see lists of Sellers, it is this brief description which they see first of all.

Make it work for you

Our recommendations for your brief description are:

Stay focused		Focus on your core skills and experience; what are you good at; what have you achieved.

Sell yourself		This is your chance to get a Buyer’s attention. You need to communicate your skills and come across as professional and competent

Keep it short		Remember that there is a 200-character limit, unless you are a subscriber, in which case there is a 400-character limit. Even if you choose to put in a longer description, Buyers won’t look at it, unless those first 200 – or 400 – characters have gained their attention.

Check your copy		Check for spelling, grammatical errors and incorrect punctuation. No matter how good your skills, you won’t seem professional, if your description is full of mistakes.

Don’t give your name away		Remember that the terms and conditions of people4business state that you must not divulge your name, contact details or identifying information in your brief description.

Use the ‘Overview’		If there’s a lot more you want to say, put it in the ‘Overview’ field of your CV. Any Buyers interested in you will want to check out your CV, and the overview is the first thing they’ll read. Remember – you still need to keep it brief and focused on your core skills and experience.

Your CV

Our stats show us that Buyers are very unlikely to shortlist you if you don’t have a CV on the site. You don’t need to go into huge amounts of detail, but you need to include enough information to show a Buyer that you do have the skills they are looking for.

If you don’t have time to copy your CV into the template, then please e-mail it to us and we will do it for you:

seller@people4business.com

You can then sign in to your homepage, at any time, to double check your entry.

last updated 17.07.08