求职面试：如何回答‘Tell Me About Yourself’

北美求职招聘 · 发表于 2014-5-1 08:46:13

“tell me about yourself”通常是面试时的第一个问题. 在这个问题背后，面试官通常想考察的是面试者的表达能力，是否自信，他们会给别人deliver一个怎么样的第一印象. 同时，面试官更想考察面试者的思维，如：他们觉得什么是重要的，他们会怎样阐述他们认为重要的东西.

很多人觉得这一题很难回答，其实不然。这是一个非常好的介绍自己，并且广而告知自己优点的机会. 这是面试必问问题，大家一定要好好的回答. 如下是回答这类问题的小贴士，大家学起来！

错误的回答

There are many ways to respond to this question correctly and just one wrong way: by asking, "What do you want to know?" That tells me you have not prepared properly for the interview and are likely to be equally unprepared on the job. You need to develop a good answer to this question, practice it and be able to deliver it with poise and confidence.

正确的回答

To help you prepare, I spoke to a number of career coaches on how best to respond when faced with this question. Heed the career advice that follows to ace this opener:

The consensus of the coaches with whom I spoke:

Focus on what most interests the interviewer

集中在面试官感兴趣的方面/意味着集中在跟工作相关的方面

According to Jane Cranston, a career coach from New York, "The biggest mistake people being interviewed make is thinking the interviewer really wants to know about them as a person.

They start saying things like, 'Well, I was born in Hoboken, and when I was three we moved …’ Wrong. The interviewer wants to know that you can do the job, that you fit into the team, what you have accomplished in your prior positions and how can you help the organization."

Nancy Fox, of Fox Coaching Associates, agrees. She notes that "many candidates, unprepared for the question, skewer themselves by rambling, recapping their life story, delving into ancient work history or personal matters." She recommends starting with your most recent employment and explaining why you are well qualified for the position. According to Fox, the key to all successful interviewing is to match your qualifications to what the interviewer is looking for. "In other words, you want to be selling what the buyer is buying."

Think of your response as a movie preview, says Melanie Szlucha, a coach with Red Inc. "The movie preview always relates to the movie you're about to see. You never see a movie preview for an animated flick when you're there to see a slasher movie. So the ‘tell me about yourself" answer needs to directly fit the concerns of your prospective employer."

Previews are also short but show clips of the movie that people would want to see more of later. They provide enough information about the movie so that you could ask intelligent questions about what the movie is about. Hiring managers don't want to look unprepared by reading your resume in front of you, so Szlucha advises that you "provide them some topics to ask you more questions about."

强调自己最重要的特质/优点

Greg Maka, managing director at 24/7 Marketing, advises job seekers to "tell a memorable story about your attributes." For example, if you tell an interviewer that people describe you as tenacious, provide a brief story that shows how you have been tenacious in achieving your goals. "Stories are powerful and are what people remember most," he said.

One great example is that of Fran Capo, a comedienne who bills herself as "the world’s fastest-talking female." She offers the following advice: "Whenever I go on auditions or interviews, I have a "set" opening I use. ... I tell the interviewer what I do in one sentence and then say, ‘And I also happen to be the Guinness Book of World Records’ fastest-talking female.’ Then I elaborate." According to Capo, the main thing in anything you do is to be memorable, in a good way. Your goal when you answer the ‘tell me about yourself’ question is to find a way stand out from everyone else.

一定要简短！

Maureen Anderson, host of "The Career Clinic" radio show, stresses the importance of keeping your answer short: "The employer wants to know a little bit about you to begin with — not your life story. Just offer up two or three things that are interesting — and useful. You should take about a minute to answer this question."

To make sure it is succinct and covers what you want it to cover, she suggests that you "write your answer out before the interview, practice it, time it and rehearse it until it sounds natural. Then practice it some more. The goal is to tell the employer enough to pique their interest, not so much that they wonder if they’d ever be able to shut you up during a coffee break at the office."

Rather than dread this question, a well-prepared candidate should welcome this inquiry. Properly answered, this question puts the candidate in the driver's seat. It gives her an opportunity to sell herself. It allows her to set the tone and direction for the rest of the interview, setting her up to answer the questions she most wants to answer.

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