what to say when some one say "tell me a bit about you"

@iamcoder — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 18:58:44 +0000

As senior engineer I've interviewed a lot of engineers as candidates to join my team. In general doesn't matter what level, their background , if they do speak the language natively or not, they never know what to say when I ask them to tell me a bit about themselves.

The most common is they start to repeat what they have in their resume, which I already have in front of me, I don't need that.

Others tell me their generals, like name , age, nationality, how many kids, relationship status... I don't need that...

if you can not answer in a clear way such a simple question, how could you describe your team a complex problem? you may or may not see a correlation, but in my experience there is.

Generally an introduction is short, under 1 minute and should be concise, precise, omit obvious, if you are interviewing for an engineering position, well, they already know you are an engineer. Believe me they will check how good you are in couple of minutes after the introduction.

Try to prepare an introduction, starting by writing down what you like, what you don't like, are you working in a goal that you want to share? like preparing a trip to Europe...

From there, create a short story about you, avoid bragging about your possessions (cars, houses, jewelry ), focus in your personal treats and remember to keep it short.

do you want to know about me?

I like to travel as often as possible, generally I use my travels to take shoots of the places I like, my favorite readings outside of technology is about team building, innovation and economics, I enjoy a good match of chess and I've never say no to a 1vs1 challenge in basketball.

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