Tell Me About Yourself - A Good Answer To This Interview Question

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Dan Lok

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Maybe you got fired. Maybe you just quit your job. Or maybe you’re looking for your first job. In any case, this interview question: “Tell me about yourself” is almost guaranteed to come up. And this is the part where most people say the WRONG things and lose the job opportunity. If you want to know exactly what to say, watch this video now.

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0:00.0	So tell me about yourself.
0:16.0	I am.
0:26.6	So I... So tell me about yourself. Well, I... I like...
0:30.6	Hmm.
0:32.6	So tell me about yourself.
0:34.6	Can I call a friend?
0:47.3	You submitted the resume and you waited and you waited patiently and finally you got that phone call and now you got the interview. You're sitting across the table and their hiring manager smiles and asks you the question, tell me about yourself. And you panic.
0:57.5	And you don't know what to do. And you don't know what to say. You start to stutter. And halfway
1:01.9	through the conversation, you say to yourself, I blew it. Why did I even say that? You never
1:08.3	get a second chance to make a first impression. Usually that hiring
1:12.6	manager makes up his or her mind in the first three minutes during the interview. Do you make a good
1:19.7	impression? So today I'm going to share with you from a CEO perspective, from a hiring manager
1:26.0	perspective, from an employer perspective, what is the best
1:30.4	response to the question? Tell me about yourself. You see, we have interviewed thousands and
1:37.7	thousands of potential applicants, and I cannot tell you how many times I see people kind of struggle with this question,
1:46.6	but however, there are incidents that we are very impressed
1:50.7	with the response.
1:52.2	This is not theory.
1:53.7	We have taken some of the best replies,
1:56.5	some of the best responses to this question.
2:00.1	I'm gonna teach it to you.
2:01.1	And by the end of this video,
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