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Did I tell you about how I started my career?

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I was given one of our team's most challenging accounts, a customer from Texas.

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Everyone in the office laughed when they heard about it.

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One colleague told me,

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Yeah, that contract is a pain in the butt. Don't expect too much.

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I got so many requests from that customer contact and I did everything I could to help him.

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I thought we would have a big order by the end of the month.

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but when the time came, he didn't order anything.

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So, since I was in Texas, a place where people like their guns,

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I went to a toy shop and bought a toy gun with six plastic bullets.

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I gave the gun to the customer at our next meeting,

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and I explained what was going to happen.

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Here was my deal.

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He could ask me for anything he needed from us,

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but each time he asked, he had to give me one of those bullets.

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When I got all six bullets, I could ask for something in return.

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And you can probably guess what I wanted.

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Eventually, he agreed, and we made one of the biggest deals in our company's history.

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Probably it was not because of the bullets, but it's still one of my favorite stories.

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This has been an example of telling an anecdote.

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One of the most important things when telling an anecdote or story is to use good linkers.

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You have used this in your writing task, telling a story.

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And here you have in your book some of them.

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For example, when talking about a bad journey, you start,

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This happened last year or a few months ago.

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And then you use linkers to help the listener follow you and the narrative of what happened.

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The first part of the journey was after a while.

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It was only when.

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OK, so we're going to go back.

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There you have some examples.

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I'm going to tell you about a time.

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and of course imagine this is not only a monologue the first part of your exam

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but also an interaction the person who is listening to you has to show interest

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and show that he or she is listening Wow really and what happened next and after

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that? Oh, and in the end? Okay, so you're going to listen to another example. Once we were hiring

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for a software engineer. One candidate had a fantastic CV and we invited him for an interview.

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However, like many interviews, this one was nothing special. He had the skills but something

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about him felt strange. He avoided talking about his job history and he seemed constantly

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distracted and irritated with our questions the candidate could see that

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we were not interested so he asked us to look at his portfolio before leaving

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before we could say no or even wonder why a software engineer had a paper

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portfolio he pulled out a folder and gave a presentation of his whole life

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starting with his birth certificate after showing us that he was in fact

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born he took out his kindergarten graduation certificate his art awards

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from school and all the paintings from his childhood and teenage years of

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course we didn't hire him after that he continued to try to connect with us on

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social media and we continued to decline his requests in the end he sent a

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LinkedIn death threat at that point I blocked him permanently okay now it's

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It's your time to record your anecdote.