>I'm not a marketer and I really resent how in academia to have any chance you have to "sell sell sell". You have to do this everywhere. There are limited reso

>I'm not a marketer and I really resent how in academia to have any chance you have to "sell sell sell". You have to do this everywhere. There are limited resources. You are competing for them with others. You need to convince a gatekeeper that you deserve those resources. In academia, you are competing for grant money, lab space, etc. on the basis that your work is of more import than that of someone else. In enterprise software sales, you are attempting to convince a customer that your product is a better solution to their business problem than of some competitor's. In an interview, you need to demonstrate that you can accomplish a function better than one of your peers who is also vying for the job, and probably has an almost identical skills profile to you.