Comments on: Top HR Interview Question – “Tell Me About Yourself”

By: Bj

Bj — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:33:47 +0000

thanks…they are very helpful questions

By: Dharmareddy Ayodhyapuram

Dharmareddy Ayodhyapuram — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:01:26 +0000

Tell them your name and which place you are from. Suppose you are “Mike Creamer”, then do not start with “Myself Mike Creamer”; start with “I am Mike Creamer”. This is a very common mistake. Not acceptable in interviews especially in call center jobs.

You may talk about your family (cover up in short); you may talk about your how you came to the city, etc.
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By: Jayvardhan Patil

Jayvardhan Patil — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:54:38 +0000

This is a reply to grantcrow’s comment.

I completely agree what you have said. The Interview Questions will go on changing with a wide degree with every job type. What I have written in this article is very generalized answer. If you can add something that is relevant to the job type you are applying, then it will add starts to your answer.

Good Luck.

By: grantcrow

grantcrow — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:58:05 +0000

I agree this is a very common question and one to which any interviewee needs to have a well rehearsed answer. I'm more interested though in how first time entrants into the job market (graduates and school leavers) are able to answer this question. There's less experience for them to draw on in their answer and therefore the “elevator pitch” needs even more preparation. In my experience young adults are not good at identifying the relevant experiences they have had and teasing out the skills they developed in the process. Whether it is the experience of managing a big table of difficult customers at a restaurant or the holida car washing business, there's always a set of skills waiting to be identified. Dr. G's blog is at http://www.mytalentplace.co.uk/blog.