You walk into the interview room, shake hands with your interviewer and sit down with your best interviewing smile on. Guess what their first question is? "Tell me about yourself."
Do you "wing it" and actually tell all manner of things about yourself? Will you spend the next 5 minutes rambling on about what an easy-going, loyal, dedicated, hard working employee you've been? If this is the case, you stand a good chance of having bored your interviewer to death thus creating a negative first impression.
Tell Me About Yourself -" Best Answers"
Because it's such a common interview question, it's strange that more candidates don't spend the time to prepare for exactly how to answer it. Perhaps because the question seems so disarming and informal, we drop our guard and shift into ramble mode. Resist all temptation to do so.
Your interviewer is not looking for a 10-minute dissertation here. Instead, offer a razor sharp sentence or two that sets the stage for further discussion and sets you apart from your competitors.
Your Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
Give them "your synopsis about you" answer, specifically your Unique Selling Proposition. Known as a personal branding or a value-added statement, the USP is a succinct, one-sentence description of who you are, your biggest strength and the major benefit that a company will derive from this strength. Here is an example of a Unique Selling Proposition: "I'm a seasoned Retail Manager strong in developing training programs and loss prevention techniques that have resulted in revenue savings of over $million for (employer's name) during the past 11 years."
What a difference you've made with this statement. Your interviewer is now sitting forward in her chair giving you her full attention. At this point, you might add the following sentence: "I'd like to discuss how I might be able to do something like that for you." The ball is now back in her court and you have the beginnings of a real discussion and not an interrogation process.
Be Specific
The key is that you must lead with your strongest benefit to the employer. Be specific and don't wander about with some laundry list of skills or talents. Be sure to put a monetary value on your work if at all possible and be ready with details when you're called upon. Give an estimated value to the $$ you've either helped to make or save for your employer.
Be Prepared
When you walk into an interview, remember to always expect the "tell me about yourself" question. Prepare ahead of time by developing your own personal branding statement that clearly tells who you are, your major strength and the clear benefit that your employer received. The advantages of this approach are that you'll quickly gain their attention and interest them in knowing more. You'll separate yourself from your competitors. You'll also have a higher chance of being positively remembered and hired.
Here is the examples
Example :- 1
Hi Greetings Sir and Mam,
My Name is Ankur, I belongs to Karnal HR.
I am pursuing Degree B-Tech in CSE from DCRUST with CGPA of 7.5 I did my Intermediate from CBSE with 81.2% & High school from State Board with 88.6%.
Regarding my technical profile I am well versed in C, java, Advance Java, HTML, MS-Access, MS- SQL and MS office.
I did my 2 months industrial training from DUCAT Institute Gurgaon, Where I Took Training on JAVA and Advance JAVA.
MY Projects is a Job Searching Website. In which I worked hard to make it much better using JAVA as Front End.
Talking about my family,
We are 4 members including me in my family. My father is a Government Servant and my Mother is a Teacher in Government School. I have an elder brother. He is preparing for SSC.
MY strengths are self-motivated, easily mingling with others, I am a good learner, dedicated to work, confident, adaptable to any kind of situation and a team player.
Regarding my positive Traits, Basically I'm a hard worker. I possess good grasping power. Any work given to me I do it with common sense. Above all I render my services with utmost sincerity.
My weakness is lagging communication but now I am improving it and I'm not comfortable until I finished my work in given time.
My hobbies are teaching kids, playing PC games.
My short term goal just to crack this interview and be a part of your company. As a college postgraduate, I need to start building a strong presence in the industry, working for a company. My long term goal is to achieve a higher esteemed position in the company and be a person of import whom the company doesn't want to lose at any cost.
My interested area of work is Development and Support on JAVA and its Applications.
My long term goal is to become more responsible and knowledgeable personality. And on respectable position on my company.
Lastly my special interest in my life is I want to become a Software Engineer.
As a fresher I don't have working experience but I will prove once opportunity comes.
That's all about me and Thanks once again to give me this wonderful Opportunity and your precious time
Example :- 2
Good morning Sir.
Good morning Sir.
First of all I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to present myself in front of you.
I'm Akshay, which means Eternal, Immortal, Indestructible.
I'm basically from Nadiad, the birthplace of Sardar Patel.
About my family, I have 5 members in my family. My father, my mother, my grandmother, my sister and I. My father is a Sales-Executive in a Fertilizer company. My mother is a housewife. My sister is in 9th std.
I have done my schooling from NES, Nadiad.
My strengths are I am good listener, good team player, sincere, friendly to others, hard working, I don't have egos to learn things even from the younger one's.
My weakness is I trust people very soon.
My hobbies are, reading, playing games, watching movies, English TV serials, documentary shows and football.
My short term goal is to be get placed in a reputed company like yours.
My long term goal is to achieve a higher esteemed position in the company and be a person with importance whom the company doesn't want to loose at any cost.
I have done my 15 days training from a pigment manufacturing company GCL, GIDC PANOLI.
Coming to the final year project, my project is 'Air compression by wind energy'. I'm working on this project in a group of 4. So I can tell that I'm also a good team player.
Once again I thank you for giving this wonderful opportunity.
Example :-3
Happy day to all,
My name is G. Aithya Sai dweller of Chintalapudi.
Recently I have done my B-Tech in Mechanical Engineering from VIT with an aggregate of 78%.
I completed my intermediate with 96% and secured Town first.
I completed my schooling with 86.5% and secured Scool first.
My father is Mr. Sarveswara rao. He's a clerk.
My mother Mrs. Kanakadurga. She's a homemaker.
I have four sibling and I'm the younger in the family.
My hobby is playing Chess.
My achievements are recently I qualified in GATE_2014 and I have done a project that produces power from Speed breakers. I received the best CR of my college for being a successful CR during 4 years.
My short term goals is to be placed in well reputed company.
My long term goal to be excel in the technology assigned to me.
I believe that knowledge is not the wealth of anybody and it has to be distributed. So I feel free to share my knowledge. This will helps to my team-mates.
Thank you all for your patience listening.
Example :- 4
Its my pleasure to introduce myself in front of you,
My name is Venkat lagadapati and I am from vinukonda, guntur dist.
Now I am doing my engineering in EEE stream and I completed my intermediate in sri chaithanya junior college and my 10th class in vani E. M High school.
I belongs to family of four, my father is farmer, my mother is homemaker and my sister is doing M.Sc stat in Acharya nagarjuna university, Guntur.
On the academic front, I have a CGPA of 8.29, I have consistently been a good student. And I gave equal importance to co curricular activities and leadership qualities. I was appointed as a coordinator for samyak-13 on the behalf of EEE department. I won many certificates in inner college events.
My short goal is to join in an MNC and long term goal to achieve a challenging position in that company.
My outside interests are Watching discovery channel and photo editing.
Thank you.
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