Bring your Brag Book! - By: Barbara Kolosinska

When applying to an account manager job in London it is vital, in today’s job economy, to be one step ahead of the game, and have something a little extra to bring to the table that will have employers scrambling to employ you rather than anyone else. It is not enough to have the degree, the qualifications, the experience or the psersonality – you need something else and that something else is a brag book! Not many people today know what a brag book is and how important it can be to impress a future employer.

Even if you have an important degree, a suberb CV and covering letter and you are exceptional in interview situations, chances are in this day and age you will be up against 10 or more people on exactly the same level for every account manager job in London - but chances are they won’t have a brag book!

Quick Tips For Your Brag Book:

The Importance of Timing!

It is important that you don’t show the interviewer your brag book before or during the interview, it is not there to help you to illustrate the points you are making. If you give the interviewer something to read the conversation will probably dry up and they may be reading when they should be listening. The brag book is best designed as a copy that can be left behind when you leave. It’s purpose is to remind the interviewer of who you are. Everyone else will only be in the person’s mind, but you will have given them something material - something tangible that they can glance through and see all your successes. So on exiting the interview for your ideal account manager in London, simply place the copy on the table and say ‘ I would like to leave a copy of my accomplishments for you to assess later’, and leave happy in the knowledge that they will not be able to forget you.

Work Your Way Back!

In a similar way to your CV, you need to place your current achievements and accomplishments towards the front of the book, and then work your way back in a chronological order. It doesn’t matter how great that project you did back in 1996 was, the potential employers want to know what you have been doing recently, so theycan be sure you still have what it takes for this particular account

About the Author

Barbara Kolosinska (MREC CertRP) is a Sales Director for C&M, a leading travel recruitment agency who specialise in finding their clients the perfect account manager job in London across all sectors of the travel industry. C&M have access to the largest choices of account manager job in London from the UK’s top travel employers.

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