hey everybody Don Georgevich hear with job interview tools and today I'm gonna
tell you how to answer tell me about yourself the fast and easy way to do it
in three simple steps I mean most people make this question so much harder than
it is so if you want to know how to answer tell me about yourself the right
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this question once and for all for you and you'll have a simple easy framework
that you can use and apply to your experience and be able to go into a job
interview and just easily and effortlessly tell them about you so
first thing there's three steps where do you start what do you say where to end
so the key to answering this question depends on where you're at in your
career so you might be fresh out of college or you might have been working
for 10 or 20 years your answer to tell me about yourself depends on that so if
you're fresh out of college and let's say you are going to college for
accounting you might say you know during high school I realized that I've enjoyed
accounting 1 and accounting 2 and I found it fascinating the numbers made a
lot of sense to me and I really enjoyed creating models I decided that's what I
wanted to do so I went to college to pursue a career in accounting and while
I was there I was active in a few different financial clubs and I
furthered my experience in accounting and I had a couple internships at you
know here and there you know name those companies and now I am looking to get an
accounting position and a big accounting firm and hopefully within the next three
to five years I will seek out my CPA that's it that's done as well as that
big 30 seconds that's all you need to do to answer tell me about yourself that's
all the employer wants to hear and you can do that in 20 or 30 seconds now
here's the trick here's the trick you need to have two versions of your answer
so I gave you the short version you're going to want to have a long version now
it would encourage you to you're long version first and and the
long version may be let's say it's two minutes long now that's still gonna be
too long to give in an interview but create a two minute version condense
that long version down to maybe it's you know 45 seconds to a minute and the long
version it's still gonna be the same thing as the short version so to speak
you're just gonna be a little bit longer you're still gonna talk about how you
got started in accounting what you liked about it what it meant to you then
you're gonna talk about your accounting years in college and maybe just a little
bit more detail about what you did maybe some of the club's that you were active
in then you're gonna go into a little bit more detail about the internships
that you had and what you did what you liked about those and then you're gonna
wrap it up with the end point of you know hopefully in the next you know
three to five years I would like to be employed by a large accounting firm and
doing accounting for small businesses and and hopefully achieve my CPA so you
have a long in a short version here's why you have a long and a short version
let's say for example you go into the job interview and you sit down with the
hiring manager and he's like okay Bob tell me about yourself so when he says
it like that and you have maybe 45 minutes to interview you can probably
give the hiring manager the long version you know the 45 seconds to a minute tell
them the whole story after you interview with the hiring manager the hiring
manager is probably going to introduce you to some other people who may
interview you now you may only have 15 minutes they might say hey, Bob
wants you to meet the Director of Human Resources why don't you sit down with
her for about 15 minutes and she's gonna say okay Bob tell me about yourself you
really can't give her the long version that's where you give her the short
compressed version the one that takes 15 seconds almost like an elevator pitch I
mean you have to know when to give the long and one to give the short because
if you don't have two different versions you're gonna end up giving everybody the
long version it's gonna happen there they're gonna
get bored or I'm gonna view people all the time they're going to cut you off
and they're gonna be like hey that's great Bob we got to move on we don't
have time to listen to your life story so you got it simple enough so if you
fresh out of college you create a starting point of one you want to start
and you know maybe that's in high school for you or maybe that's earlier in your
career or maybe maybe your starting point is college maybe you went to
college for something and you changed your major so you create your starting
point there that's really the key you don't have to start in high school you
just have to decide what your starting point is and that's one of the problems
with all the other videos they tell you well you need to start in high school
you need to start in college you need to talk about every job you've
ever had no all that stuff is just pure garbage that's somebody else pressing
and forcing their model onto you that doesn't fit you because you are a unique
individual you need to create a story around you that fits you so decide where
you want to start decide what you want to talk about and then decide where you
want to end your story and then create two versions create the long one first
and then create the short one and that's how you got it out so here's a little
tip so when you're closing your answer you know how I talked about in the
accounting example where I'm looking to work in a large accounting firm and get
my CPA within the next three to five years you want to end that in a way
that's aligned with the position so if you're interviewing for any type of
accounting position they're obviously going to want you to get your CPA
someday so it's good to include that type of information in your response
then it just kind of rounds out your answer and finishes it off in a nice
professional way that shows that you are aligned with the goals of that
organization so that's how you answer tell me about yourself when you're fresh
out of college but what about have you been working for 20 or 30 years well you
still to decide when the start your story and
then you need to decide what you're going to say and then you need to create
that ending point like I talked about so let's take me for example
if someone asked me tell me about yourself I would start off and say well
I went to college for computer technology after I graduated from
college I ended up working in the IT industry where I assisted small
businesses by implementing new computer systems for them after working in the IT
for a while I ended up graduating to a project manager where I worked and hired
a lot of different engineers for various projects and after 20 years in the field
I retired from information technology and I moved into creating digital
training programs that help job seekers interview and prepare for interviews and
today I worked with employers and I teach them how to properly interview job
candidates so that they find the proper alignment in their company that's it
that's the real tell me about yourself for Don Georgevich now that's the
short version if you ask me the long version if you'll notice I'm gonna cover
all the same points but I'm just going to expand on them so I would say you
know I went to college for computer technology after I graduated from
college I worked for NASA in Cleveland Ohio for about five years where I
evaluated different technologies and I brought in a lot of different technology
vendors to the NASA laboratory to showcase their technology so that other
engineers could see what was new and what was the greatest after five years
at NASA I moved on and I worked at a small IT company in Cleveland Ohio where
I learned a lot of Microsoft technologies and I learned how to
implement those solutions into small businesses manufacturing businesses in
the Cleveland area and after doing that for awhile I moved up into a project
manager role where I would manage other engineers and then I graduated to a
level where I started hiring other engineers for various projects and after
doing that for about 20 years I moved on to starting my own business where I
stood wrote books then I taught jobseekers how
to interview for jobs I've also created books on how to write resumes and cover
letters and just a lot of different training programs have created a massive
YouTube channel with a huge following on it and today I've moved on from training
jobseekers and not an interview for jobs to training employers on how to properly
interview candidates for jobs so there you go that's the long version of the
tell me about yourself for Donn Georgia Fitch and you can see the short version
kind of just captures all the same points that I touched about in the long
version but the long version just kind of decompresses my story a little bit
more and gives you just a better feel now
it depends sometimes I might give the short version depending on how much time
I have or I might give the long version I mean that's all there is to it and how
you answer the question really depends on you and what you feel I mean don't I
mean there's other videos out there so be careful when you watch them all and
try not to force your life story into somebody else's template your answer
needs to come from you from your heart and what you feel don't feel that you
need to jam every accomplishment that you've ever had into the story because
that's not what the employers asking they're saying tell me about yourself
they're not telling they're not asking you to tell me about your greatest
accomplishments and every job that you've ever had they want to see that
you are the real deal that you're you are genuine now if they
want to know more about you and they're just gonna ask they're gonna be like you
know so Don can you tell me a little bit more about your time at NASA or can you
tell me a little bit more time about when you were a Microsoft trainer they
might pick parts of your story that they want to know more about so don't feel
that you need to give them the full story the first time just touch on all
those elements and create a little story so that your short version is like 10 or
15 seconds long and your long version is maybe 45 to 60 seconds at the most and
that's all you got to do that's all there is to it now I hate to break this
to you but that's all I have for you and they are going to ask you all their
questions and your interview although then tell me about yourself that's
usually one of the first questions they ask but they're gonna ask you other
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hundreds of different questions but but start here first and practice your
answer to tell me about yourself and get yourself comfortable answering that
question even record yourself in front of a camera you know kind of like we are
right now and and then go back and watch yourself and see how you sound
and are you happy with it but if you're happy with the way you sound
maybe show that video to somebody else inside hey you know what do you think
this do I sound good or my minute ever mind leaving something out and just get
some other feedback and that should help you make you feel a lot more comfortable
about delivering that response but you really should never feel uncomfortable
talking about yourself I mean it's just a simple question tell me about yourself
give them the short and skinny version and that should give them a good feeling
for who you are what you're looking for and where you want to be and like that
those are just the basic elements for that question so that is all I have for
you my friend today and I sincerely wish you the very best of luck on your next
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