what my name is Dennis I've worked at very large technology companies such as
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
another video pretty soon and this YouTube channel and please subscribe for
more top tips thank you bye