{"id":23737,"date":"2012-01-12T15:53:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=23737"},"modified":"2016-12-02T06:47:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T11:47:55","slug":"so-tell-me-about-yourself-one-more-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/money\/so-tell-me-about-yourself-one-more-time\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSo, Tell Me About Yourself.\u201d One More Time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of my career coaching clients go through \u201ctell me about yourself\u201d during our first ten<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/Interview-Handshake-E.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-post-23737 wp-image-23739\" title=\"Interview Handshake E\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/Interview-Handshake-E-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/Interview-Handshake-E-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/Interview-Handshake-E.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> minutes together. Why is this so pivotal? It is for several reasons. The most important one is that the first impression is a lasting impression. In a job interview situation it is of utmost importance to make a good first impression. If you don\u2019t make that good impression, it will be very hard&#8211;if not impossible&#8211;to dig out of that hole. \u201cTell me about yourself\u201d sets the scene. If you answer it well, you\u2019ll be riding a good wave, and everything you say after that will be viewed through a positive prism. Otherwise, the opposite is true.<\/p>\n<p>You may want to ask, \u201dSo why am I being asked this question?\u201d After all, the interviewer (hopefully) has read your resume and knows everything about your professional past and respective accomplishments. Nevertheless, the test contained within the question is twofold. First, do you know what your accomplishments are? And second, if you do, can you recount them eloquently and succinctly?<\/p>\n<p>More important than everything I\u2019ve said so far is your understanding of the reason you were called in for an interview. Think about it for a second. Oops, you\u2019re wrong! It\u2019s not about your having the opportunity to tell the hiring manager how great you are and to sell yourself. It\u2019s clearly about one thing and one thing only: what you can do for the hiring manager. Now, if you agree with that contention, go back and rethink your personal marketing program. Your interview answers should universally focus on how your past experience and skills can help meet the hiring manager\u2019s challenges.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>This article originally appeared on the <\/strong><\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/old.oujobs.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/tell-me-about-yourself-one-more-time-by-alex-freund\" target=\"_blank\">OU Job Board<\/a><\/strong><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you&#8217;re supposed to answer to this open-ended, sometimes-awkward, always-asked question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":23739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-money"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cSo, Tell Me About Yourself.\u201d One More Time - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What you&#039;re supposed to answer to this open-ended sometimes-awkward always-asked question. 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