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Self Introduction is the most common asked question in any interview.

‘Tell me something about yourself is the first question that is to be asked by the interviewer to the interviewee.

Being a fresher you don’t have much about your work or other profile. There you can state about your qualification, if you are a graduate mention your college and name of your university, highlight your extracurricular activities, some of the accomplishments you achieved in your college, express how much eager you are to the world of work industry.

You could say in this way

I am a young Science/Arts/Commerce/BE graduate from XYZ university with the overall scoring 70%. Having sound knowledge on computer programming. I just love to join the industry to learn and share my knowledge and grow with the  growth of the company.

Being an experience person, here are some tips to learn how to answer the question in the right way, so that you can stay comfortable in front of the hiring manager and ideally to get more job offers.

Now there are couple of ground work you need to know before you prepare a proper answer to this question.

1.Do not talk about your personal or family life. Yes if someone asks you about yourself they are not asking you about your personal life’s twists or about you’re learning from your past mistakes or what kind of human being you are. Actually when they are asking you about yourself they actually mean to know about your qualification, your experiences, and how could you fit for this job. They just want to know about your professional background and experience in a nutshell.

2.Tell a story. Telling stories does not mean you need to tell them about your life story; you should share your professional work stories. A good professional work stories means Engaging with your work, Compelling power of categorizing the work, must be containing Clear and Complete details.

Now let’s move on to tips on How to answer the “Tell me something about yourself” Interview question.

Tip 1 Give a snapshot of your career history: It means you need to go back to the previous professional job and need to tell a story from there. Here you need to describe.

1. Company name : In which company you worked earlier.
2. Your title: What was the title you were holding in previous job.
3. Years spent on that particular role: How many years you worked on that particular role.
4. Your major responsibility: Most importantly what was your major responsibility for that position.

For instance you have started your career working as a Financial Analyst, and then work as a HOD of Financial Analyst, and now you are Financial Manager. Now when you start to telling your story you can say you start your career as Financial Analyst.

So you can state this line in the following ways..

“I started off my career as a Financial Analyst five years ago with ABC Company. Where I performed month end procedure, maintaining all accounting duties, assisted with budgeting and forecasting.

If you speak in this way you can easily give a career snapshot to the interviewer about your starting work areas and the present role you are holding for your present company.

Tip 2 Make stories of your achievement: Now after telling to the interviewer about the company you are working for, your role of this company, and the responsibility you are taking there, one more important thing you need to highlight that your major accomplishment that you have achieve in your work life. Work accomplishment means to save time, save money, improve process, improve profitability; I mean you have done something which has created a quantified result for your company.

You could say in this way

“As stating my major accomplishment I feel proud to state that I was able to prepare an excel module which helps to move accounting process smoothly and faster which made the whole process shorter approximately 1 day per month.”

Tip 3 Tell the employer what your know about this role: Now you need to tell your employer about your knowledge to have for seeing the role they are hiring for so you can say..

“I understand that for this position of finance manager that you are hiring for, you are looking for someone with strong process improvement skills.

Most of the time interviewees does not tell to the interviewer the same but it is required generally or must say psychologically it creates impact on the interviewer’s mind that the candidate not only aware about his own qualities or capabilities they also know how important their role to be for this position. This creates connection between employers with the interviewee.

Tip 4 Tell the employer why you are the right fit for what they need: This is something like icing on the cake or the cherry on the top. Many people do not bother to say this when they are answering this or may other interview questions.

This is one kind of spoon feed or brain wash to the interviewer to say why you are right fit for this job.

To add on grace you can say like this..

“Overall due to my strong background and achievement in successfully identifying gaps and creating efficiencies, I am confident enough I’ll be able to succeed in this role your are hiring for.

You need to tell the employer why you are right fit for the job. If you not end up with this you gone end up with a very flat note.

So may the interviewer didn’t expect you to answering the same but providing the toughest question’s answer such a way make them feel you are confident enough to handle such position you are applying for.

So remember, do not talk about your family, or hobbies. Your interviewer might say walk me through your resume which means to by going through your resume they will easily understand all the details they are looking for. So you spend a little time talking about your each job journey and achievement.