If you’re stumped, Pong recommends asking three to five people who know you and your professional capacity to share what they see as your top skills, how they would describe you in a sentence, or what is their favorite thing about how you work or do your craft. “Informally surveying people can give you ideas and be a springboard for figuring out how to talk about yourself in a way that’s not self-deprecating or negative,” Cynthia says.