Google and more startups as well in more recent years and I interview a lot of

candidates in my current role so what I'm going to talk to you about today is

that interview question tell me about yourself it usually happens at the start

of an interview the interviewer when they ask that question they're usually

looking to just kind of get a grasp of who this person is that they're

interviewing and really because I start of an interview is so important when a

person makes whether they want to or not a judgement that like pretty quickly of

like is this person someone that I could work with is this person good so that

question is always very important to get right first of all okay so first of all

three basic tips with that question you're going to have to tell them a

little bit about your work experience the interviewer isn't asking you about

you in terms of your personal life and everything that'll come later in

interview but they're really looking for this person what has been their work

history todate and what's really important is that you are well prepared

for that question this question some good advice I want to give me one time

was why would you not prepare for an interview for a job that you might have

for years and not spend more than just a few hours interviewing for it

so with this question make sure your CV and your resume in the US as it's called

make sure that you know which points you're going to talk to and so tip

number two so tip number one well-prepared tip number two make sure

that you're not just talking about your CV like from top to bottom or your

resume and the interviewer doesn't want you to do that they want you to actually

tell a story of that interview in terms of a to a story about your career so you

should be looking to like a few topics from each section and yeah where you are

from today but now I'm going to talk to you about tip number three so the

interviewer wants you to answer where you got to to today where you are in

this interview today that you turn up for the interview what have you

done before that and yeah and then I guess they're the three kind of key

pieces well top tips would be do not talk for more than five minutes if you

find yourself talking trying to get through your entire CV you've probably

lost the person and you need to make sure when you're actually giving an

update of where you are today in terms of your career maybe a good example

would be I worked at a software tech company for three years where I learned

to become an excellent salesperson I got promoted in that job and based on some

of my strong performance and delivering large sales quotas so you need to be

specific and give some examples like that concrete examples of where this

journey you are in your career and yeah another top tip make sure that the

interviewer is allowed to interrupt you it's not a bad thing if the interviewer

interrupts you because they need to get some key information from you or some

experience that you might tell them about might actually be very relevant to

that role so they want to learn more so it's a good sign if someone's

interrupting you throughout so I would speak in a very like kind of open way

where someone's allowed interrupt you if need be make sure you have your

highlighting your relevant examples yeah another tip is be specific about like

what was it that you did at a company in prior experience that you're very proud

of or amazing results and then and I guess on that one point about your

previous experience talk about what you achieve there may be some things that

you learned there that allowed you to move into the next role and this might

be a next rule that you're hoping to move into or maybe that you've learned

things throughout your career that makes this job that you're going for so

relevant or things you've learned to your career that you really don't want

to work in that you really want to work with this rule that you're actually

applying for and then yeah I guess the real killer tip would be make sure that

the job description that you have actually read that you can maybe point

back to this was my dream experience and this is why I'm such a

good fit for your rule or interviewer I see that you're looking for these

specific attributes I feel like I'm a great fit for the role because I have

great communication skills from my time working at I don't know if it's a

waitress or waiter or where you add really good communication skills

previously and that you can actually demonstrate that okay in our top ship

counselor the waiter thing yeah and on that point why you're really good fish

so it might be a case of you have great communication skills because you were a

receptionist one time and you had to communicate with lots of people and

manage a very busy workload which made you very experienced and a good

communicator on a daily basis using examples like that always use examples

and tell a story people love to hear stories and it's the same with me

interviewer make sure that you're telling them a story and make sure that

when you get asked tell me about yourself that you do not actually talk

non-stop for five or ten minutes and there are my top tips so come back for

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