Tell Me Something About Yourself

This post is about how to answer to the question "Tell Me Something About Yourself". Most probably people will say "What the hell this blog is about, cant I speak on myself". Hope I guessed right of your mind. YES, you can speak but you need some more Furnishing and Finishing, while speaking in front of the interviewer, if you are fresher and havn't yet given a single interview anywhere.

So in this post I am going to give you brief on How to answer to the most commonly asked interview question "Tell Me Something About Yourself". Almost in all Intrviews, the Interviewer is bound to ask about yourself so as to know about you. The another purpose of this question is to check how you can showcase yourself precisely with good communication skills. The interviwer is most interested in the way of your speaking, how you can modify your sentences accordingly, he/she might be least interested in knowing you. So better be precise and concise. While answering this question dont go more deeply with your family background, just speak about youself, the interviewer is not interested what your father, mother, siblings doing. So "Be upto yourelf".

Before going for an interview, practice it at home by speaking in front of the mirror, this will really help you. Don't just go with the thought in mind that you will handle right in front of interviewer.

You may start with the following, not with the same align but i have arranged it to the best. I will explain each of this with an example

1. Name, age, Residence

2. About your highest education

3. About your work experience

4. You can tell your qualities

5. Your interests

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Example(This would be an ideal example).

1. Name- Don't start with "Myself < your name>", always start with "My name is < your name>"

Age- Its not necessary to tell your age(mostly for girls), but if you comfortable with it, then tell the age. "My age is < for eg. 20>"

Residence- Don't tell your full address, just the name of your city, "and I am residing in < for eg Mumbai>"

2. About Your highest education - Here you speak on your educational degrees, what was your highest education, if your job profile is related with technicality then speak about your technical education(if you posess any degree, don't tell lie). Eg. "Talking about my highest education, I have completed my < ur education eg. graduation> from < mention the institute name>(it is better if u mention university < eg. Mumbai University> if the institute is not very much well knwn)."

3. About your past working experience- Share your previous work experiences, telling the name of the company, your post, job profile, your responsibilities. Eg. "I have worked wid < company name you worked with> for < duration> years, as a < your position in company>(freshers can say that they are freshers). I was handling < your responsibilities>". Here also, don"t tell lie, because you will be asked to provide the proof of your experience. So be ready with your documents.

4. Qualities you posess- You may tell the main plus points in you, and how that wil help you while performing your task in the company. I am giving you an eg of how you can express yourself in this section. Eg. "Talking about me as a person, < mention ur qualities> eg. I am a person with strong interpersonal skills and have the ability to get along well with people. I enjoy challenges and looking for creative solution to problem. Besides the details given in my resume I believe in character values, vision and action. I am quick in learning from mistakes but its different thing that I make mistakes rarely.(while saying this you must have that expression on your face that u posess all dis qualities)(keep changing expression on ur face)"

(after a short rest not more dan 1-2 sec)

5. Your interests- In earlier, the interviewers were not much interested in knowing your interests but now-a-days interviewer will ask your interest if you forget to mention it in your answer. The reason is to know what you do at home when you are free, and he/she will also come to know about what kind of person you are(your nature). Suppose you are saying that, you like cricket, that means you are more goal and target oriented person. Eg. My hobbies are < your hobbies>.(mention hobbies about which u knw very well, interviewer may ask u going deeply into it. So mention only those you are familiar with).

You may tell the persons that inspires you the most. Eg. "The persons who inspires me a lot < mention names>(NO need to mention only BIG NAMES like BILL GATES etc, you can take these names only if you know about them because interviewer may ask why he inspires you, what you know about him, so you must be very well knwon about them.), < take for eg. MS DHONI>(then tell the reason) because I like the way he handles any critical situation by staying calm and cool all the time and snatching the victory from the opponent"

"Thats all about myself"

You may also end up with the question "is there anything else that u wanted to know and i didn't cover so far??"

(You should done with this in around 1 to 1.5 minutes.. )

Note: While you speaking the interviewer may interrupt you in between, so you must make changes and modify the sentences accordingly.

In the next post I will be coming with few more commonly asked questions in the Interviews.