Hi everybody Don Georgevich here job
interview tools and I'm talking to all
the finance majors out there so if you
have a background in finance or business
or accounting I'm talking to you and I
want to help you answer tell me about
yourself because it matters it matters
whether you're an engineer whether
you're an accountant whether you're a
doctor a lawyer a construction worker
whatever it is it matters how you answer
the question tell me about yourself so
it depends what you do so the way I like
to answer this question the best way I
think to answer this question is to talk
about your journey talk about your
journey through your life and your
career and what inspired you to do that
so if you were an engineer you know what
inspired you to be an engineer so for
finance majors what inspired you about
finance I mean how did you get excited
about that when did you get excited
about that I mean you know were you you
were you six years old and you know were
you really good at math at six were you
like the best in the class you know
they're in kindergarten or you know when
did it hit you at what point in your
career and your life did the numbers
start making sense to you when did it
click and when did you when did you
decide you wanted a career in finance or
accounting or business or you know
whatever that was start there so if you
were six and you were just a math whiz
start there if you know it didn't hit
till later maybe in high school maybe in
high school you took you know an
accounting class you know your sophomore
year you took accounting one you're like
wow this this clicks so for the first
time in my life something is actually
clicking and resonating with me so maybe
you start there wherever it was start
with what inspired you about the numbers
and that that's that's generally where I
would lead with anybody who's in finance
because finance is all about numbers so
start with somewhere in your lifetime
where the numbers started to make sense
for you and where you could just start
doing them in your head easily and how
you know classes in high school were
easy and and you couldn't get enough of
it you wanted more and so maybe you
started a finance Club in high school or
you know maybe you volunteered Utah
the local church to help them you know
with their books you know hey you know
I'm really good at numbers can I help
you do this stuff yeah you just do it
for free show them that you were
passionate about the numbers and what
you liked
why you liked it or you know maybe maybe
helped grandma maybe have a grandma
balance or checkbook or maybe grandma
have a little cookie shop and you know
you kept grandma's books whatever it was
talk about that start there say I love
the numbers so much this is you know I I
just couldn't get enough of it and I
wanted more so I volunteered my time I
did this this and this I started some
classes and then I knew I knew I wanted
to be in finance or accounting for the
rest of my life so I figured out what
was the best way to do that and you know
the best way was to go to college for to
get a degree in finance or accounting or
business and then talk about your
experiences in college now now I'm not
saying to drag this out forever but just
touch on these points so and you know
and give them a path give them a logical
path to show them you know where you
started out how you got excited and then
what you did to pursue that dream that
passion that you had so when you're in
college you talk about you know some of
the classes you took the things you did
maybe some of the clubs just started
some of the internships that you have
now if that's if you just graduated
college and you have a major in finance
and you've done nothing else then you
stop there now let's say you've been
working for 20 years and you have 20
years experience still start when the
numbers started making sense for you so
you could still start at 6 or 8 or 10 or
whatever it was but talk about your
journey talk about your journey through
your life and your career so you know if
you have 20 years of experience you know
you start at 10 hey the numbers started
just clicking for me I went to high
school I really loved accounting I I
started some clubs then I went to
college and then I did some internships
here and I volunteered my time here at
the church and maybe the Boy Scouts Girl
Scouts you know whatever it was
volunteered my time helped grandma on a
cookie shop balance your books and then
I went on to work for these different
companies these are some of the kind of
things that I worked on
I really felt passionate about what I
was doing and I wanted to grow and I
wanted to become you know a Senior
Accountant or I want or or you know what
I wanted to get out of accounting and I
wanted to move into finance you know
whatever it is tell them a story
don't just give them facts and figures
tell them a story that you would tell
anybody that you would tell a friend you
know if they said you know hey you know
tell me about your career you know what
was it like or you know why are you in
finance that's that's probably the
bigger question that's more the question
when they ask you know tell me about
yourself and you have a finance and
you're in finance what they're really
asking is why are you in finance what do
you like about finance answer the
question from that perspective and
that's gonna you're gonna get a
different answer that's gonna come out
of that and that's gonna be an answer
where you tell them a story about your
journey through your career and what you
liked and and how it worked out for you
and the things that you did so that's it
that's it that's all there is to it so
if you are in finance or accounting or
business that's it that's how you tell
them tell me about yourself let's start
with that journey start with that
journey all right my friend that's all I
have for you today good luck on your
next interview and I'll see you in the
next video
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