“So…tell me about yourself.”
I often see this problematic situation in my point-making classes and workshops: communicating without a point. Either speakers don’t know how to make their point, or they confuse points for mere concepts, themes, facts, or notions. This is also not the time to reveal personal information about your life, like your family life, recent vacation, and puppetry obsession. That can come later, when the interview is winding down. For now, take the greatest advantage of this early moment by making a substantial first impression. .
. “Help your profile rise to the top by articulating how your current skills are compatible to a job posting even if it goes by another name,” writes Tammy Johns, CEO of Strategy and Talent Corporation. “For example, customer service representatives are compatible with loan interviewers, hotel desk clerks, billing clerks, and receptionists.”
I tell them about myself. And I be myself. Because I'm not planning on wearing the interview facade every day I work, if I get the job. Unless of course it's an acting job, in which case I wouldn't apply. Acting isn't really something I do. Or want to do. At work or for work.
I always ask what they would like to know...the objective is to learn about you and what you value in and of yourself. When in reality if you turn it around you will learn what the interviewers (future managers) value about themselves and accordingly the company as well.
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I always respond to that one with..'It's all in my C.V' 🤣🤣🤣