MAYBANK CAREER PREPARATION WORKSHOP (Week 4)

This week we have a workshop which is about personal branding. In this workshop we can learn about how to "sell" ourself and how to built our personal branding.

As a designer, I think it's very important to know about how to built personal branding. In this workshop, our guest, Xin Ying Lim has given us a lot of tips about how to "sell" ourself. When she starts giving the talks, she ask us a few questions. "What make you different? Why the employee/customer choose you but not others?" These are what we need to think about when we would like to built personal branding. Personal branding somehow is including your own skills and experiences when you're "sell" yourself. You need to let the others know what is your strengths, what is your passionate.

To know ourself better, she mention that we may "look different" in the others' eyes. For example, Ms Lim think that she is an introvert person, but her colleague think that she is an extrovert person. This is because Ms Lim is working in PR apartment and she need to talk with others. Therefore, she need to "act" and be a extrovert person. Ms Lim suggest to get some feedbacks and comments from the people around us so that we can know ourself better.

In fact, I can't remember all the information that I get from the talk, I just take down some note and write down something which I think is important. From my opinion, personal branding is to "sell" yourself and let there others know about YOU. Everyone is different, and you need to show your strengths, your passionate. You need to let the others remember you.