<목욜정모> Feb 11th Thursday Meetong's Topic 2

[Anna입니당(Anne)]

4 common “Tell Me about Yourself” interview questions and answers

1. A brief summary of your personal details: You have to give your name, where you are from and a brief review of your resume. You may also provide any other personal detail that you choose to provide.

2. Education: You should tell the interviewer about your educational qualifications and any relevant miscellaneous educational qualifications that you might have amassed.

3. Professional experience: Standard questions during a job interview are “tell me about your professional experience”. Depending on whether you are a novice or an experienced professional, you should share your previous job experiences. If you are a novice, then, you could tell anything that you think would be relevant for the job. You may provide a scope of your educational capabilities and strengths or any of your hobbies, etc.

4. Your weaknesses and strengths: One of the tricky interview questions that you might be asked is “tell me about your weaknesses and/or strengths”. Therefore, you should prepare for such questions. A common mistake is to take strength and present it as a weakness. You should be honest. You may share one-two of your weaknesses and the way you have (successfully) corrected or handled these weaknesses. On the other hand, do not boast your strengths. Tell about some of your strengths as having a positive impact on your professional capabilities.

5 tips for “Tell Me about Yourself” interview answers

Try to be as clear, precise and frank as possible. When interviewing and answering “tell me about yourself” questions, you should avoid common mistakes and stick to the facts as follows: 

1. Keep the information crisp and relevant: One of the first things to remember is to keep the information crisp and relevant. Try to speak in short sentences and moreover, try to give them as much information as possible in the least amount of time. Here is a brief idea of what you would be saying:

2. Do not repeat information from the CV: You should ascertain that none of the information that you provide about yourself is repeated or duplicated from your curriculum vitae. Therefore, even your curriculum vitae should only contain the necessary and relevant information, while all other miscellaneous information should be disclosed during the ‘tell me about yourself’ answers.

3. Fabricated or false information: Another important thing that you should remember is that you should not give any fabricated or false information while answering the Tell Me about Yourself Interview question. Background checks today have become very important and strict. Companies are known to sack people even after years of working, simply on the basis of some false information provided to them during the initial interview.

4. Irrelevant and unnecessary information: It is very important that no irrelevant and unnecessary information is given out during the question. The question seems to be quite simple, but it is actually one of those make or break questions, from which an interviewee can never recover and hence loses the job opportunity.

5. Facts and figures: While telling about yourself, be prepared to be asked further questions about any facts and figures that you have provided. For example, if you have said that you have a Bachelor’s degree, make sure that you carry a copy of the same. Any information given without the relevant proof may be deemed suspicious and ambiguous.

6. Do Not Tell them about: You should not disclose too much information . You might tell the interviewer that your hobby is fishing, but telling about your last fishing trip in which you missed a big fish would be too much information, unless the interviewer is a big fishing fan and actually goads you into telling the details. Also, you should not give them too much information about your family members. Of course, you would have to inform them about the number of family members that you have,  and whether they work or not, and if yes, where, those kinds of details, but telling them anything apart from that is not suggested.

Conversation Questions

Tell me about...?

1. Tell me about something you love.

2. Tell me about something you hate.

3. Tell me about something you really care about.

4. Tell me about a dream you've had.

5. Tell me about yourself.

6. Tell me about your childhood.

7. Tell me about a place you've visited.

8. Tell me about a time when you were happy.

9. Tell me about a time when you were sad.

10. Tell me about a time when you were excited.

11. Tell me about a time when you were frightened.

12. Tell me about your favorite pastime.

13. Tell me about something delicious.

14. Tell me about something boring.

15. Tell me about your education.

16. Tell me about your work.

17. Tell me about a teacher you had.

18. Tell me about the hardest thing you ever had to do.

19. Tell me about something you regret.

20. Tell me about your favorite book.

21. Tell me about a country or place you would like to visit and why.

22. Tell me about your favourite music / song / band.

23. Tell me about something you would happily do again.

[Edwin]

벌써 주제가 나왔네요... 미리 미리 답변 준비 해야 겠네요.. ㅎㅎ

[rosemary]

저두요^^ㅋㅋ 부족한 만큼 더욱더 열띠미^^*

[judy]

애나씨 요즘 얼굴보기 힘드네요..지난번에 갔었는데.. 재밌었어요.ㅋㅋ

[호텔리어]

안녕하세요, 오늘 참가를 해보고 싶습니다. 영어를 잘 하진 못하지만, 열심히 듣는 자세로라도 참여하고 싶습니다. 주제 열심히 읽고 가겠습니다. ^^