Tell us about yourself

“Tell us about yourself” is the most difficult question asked during an interview. We have so much to tell yet it feels confusing and difficult, what to tell.

Many experienced trainers suggesting to explain about your strengths, describe your achievements, whereas few of them suggests to talk about related achievements for the advertised vacancy. Sometimes if required you can exaggerate it as well.

Everyone talks from their own or from others experience, hence all the about are correct. However for me, it is kind of more dependent over the state of mind of the interviewer. What he wants to know about you and if you’ll give him the precise information in this first introduction itself, 50% of your interview will be cleared, rest 50% will be specific to the profile only, which should not be a big deal for you.

In my opinion, the interviewer are there only to select you and not to reject you. If we see on the other way, by letting us selected, we are actually helping them and making their job easier and this is the key, which we should understand. Once we’ll understand it, all we need to do is to help the interviewer. This will give us more confidence and help us to overcome of shaking hand, stammering or losing confidence kind of common interview-mania situations.

To sum-up, the simplest way to answer this question during the interview can be, telling yourselves in points or topics. As the conversation starts, you can also ask the interviewer, what specific area he wants you to elaborate. This will make the interview easier and quicker. It will also help both parties to be comfortable and will allow a two way interactive communication, which may change your future carrier!