Employability Skills Quiz

What are some PROFESSIONAL reasons that you may deliver an elevator pitch? (check all that apply)

• Ask for a job

• Ask someone to invest in your company

• Ask someone to go on a fishing trip with you

• Ask someone to buy your product

• Ask someone on a romantic date

A successful elevator pitch should explain to the recipient how __________ you are.

• Ordinary

• Unique

• Carbon Copy

• Dull

What should be included in a good elevator pitch? (check all that apply)

• Your name

• What you do

• Your non-relevant hobbies

• All of the people you know

• An ask (for a job, internship, buy a product)

Ideally, what's the best elevator pitch?

• One that's made up on the fly

• One that's well rehearsed

When giving a little more information, such as why your background or why a skill that you possess is important, your are providing--

• Plot

• Noise

• Frivolity

• Context

When pitching on a professional level, you are trying to make a what with the person that you're pitching to?

• Friendship

• Disconnect

• Connection

• Team

How are ways to close out a successful elevator pitch? (Check all that apply)

• Thank the other person for their time

• Invite the other person to contact you

• Ask if you can get in touch with the other person soon

• Tell the other person what you will do next

• Offer a high five or a fist bump

In this class, it's okay to keep your cell phone each day.

• True

• False

In this class, you have to go to the bathroom. The teacher is lecturing, you should...

• Just leave, the Teacher will know why.

• Interrupt the Teacher's Lecture and ask to go.

• Discuss it with your Tablemates and go ask the Teacher can you go.

• Wait until Teacher finishes Lecture, ask to go, then sign out on Laptop, collect Hall Pass and go.

In this class, Employability Skills means I can talk how I want to, sleep in class, not do my work and use inappropriate language.

• True

• False