From the course: How to Succeed as a Latina in a Global Work Environment
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Self-promotion
From the course: How to Succeed as a Latina in a Global Work Environment
Self-promotion
- Self promotion is another area in which Latinas are very low on the score. If I ask any company Procter and Gamble, only seven and 8% of the applications to their company come from the Latino community. And so we are not actually promoting ourselves to jobs. We're very low in our entrance. And when we're in a job, we don't promote ourselves properly. Either we feel uncomfortable doing it, or we feel, it's a blessing already to have a job, or we don't know the steps. Self promotion starts with yourself. One is self-advocacy on your value, but self promotion goes along your network, having a mentor and having a sponsor are the two most common practices for self promotion. You promote yourself little by little by actually endorsing your network, but you go to your mentor and you go to your sponsor and if you don't have one, you should ask for one. So that they can do the promotion for you. A three tier engagement for…
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