چگونه در مصاحبه‌ها خودمان را معرفی کنیم؟

زبان ویدیو: در این ویدیوی آموزشی نکاتی در پاسخ به سوال خودتان را معرفی کنید در مصاحبه هایش شغلی آموزش داده خواهد شد. 

معمولا اولین سوالی که در مصاحبه های شغلی پرسیده خواهد شد این است که «خودتان را معرفی کنید». در این ویدیو نکاتی به شما آموزش داده خواهد شد تا اگر زبان مادری تان انگلیسی نیست بتوانید به شیوه ای قابل قبول خودتان را معرفی کنید.

متن کامل ویدیو را می توانید در زیر مشاهده کنید.

So you sent off your CV and your covering

letter for that dream job and they’re

impressed! You’re called to the interview

they welcome you, you shake hands and

they ask you the first question “Tell me

about yourself?”

what do you do? what

do you say? where do you begin?

well this question will be asked at

almost every interview and let me tell

you that this is a trick question they

are NOT asking you to tell you about

yourself. To find out why stay tuned

Hello and welcome to LetThemTalk and

today we’re going to look at how to

answer the interview question tell me

about yourself we’ve got some general

tips and if English is not your first

language we’ll look at how you can

approach it if you’re not so confident

about your English level. As I said

at the beginning this is kind of a trick

question they are not asking you to tell

them your life story and they’re not

asking you to talk, in detail, about your

professional and educational experience

and background why should they do that

they got your CV they’ve read your

covering letter, they know all there is

to know, so why should they ask this

question? What they want to know is if

you possess the art of communication can

you engage? can you keep them interested?

can you tell a story? the question

beneath the question is we know you have

got what it takes to do the job on paper

but let’s see what you’re like as a

candidate. And this is your chance to

make a good first impression so

let’s look at how to answer the question.

Rule number one: Keep it brief. Very

important keep it brief one,two, three

minutes should be enough I would say

five minutes is too long

ten minutes way too long you could

probably say goodbye to the job don’t

tell your life story, you don’t get any

points for giving a long answer and you

risk alienating the interviewers you do

not need to talk about everything on

your CV this is just the first question

and if you forget something, if you get

something important, it doesn’t matter

you can discuss it later in the

interview. Your answer should pique

curiosity and the interviewer should be

thinking “I want to know more” and not

“I already know too much”. So what’s the

content of your answer you should

basically tell them a story about your

professional background and educational

background if it relates to the current

position. now you should mention some of

these things: so start by giving

some adjectives to describe yourself,

especially ones that are relevant to the

job you’re seeking say something about

how you started you could mention an

accomplishment you could talk about your

motivation tell them a story of how you

changed something or made a difference in

your previous job or at university tell

them what you can do for them and what

you want for the future and why you’re

best suited for the job. So you

can cover some of those points that’ll

be great and finally give some

personal detail to add colour or to show

that you are and all rounded individual

and your life doesn’t revolve

exclusively around work but this should

be very brief, very brief just a few

words. I know that some recruitment

advisors say that you shouldn’t say

anything personal when answering this

question but personally I think it’s

good to show that you have a life

outside of work and if one of your

interviews shares the same interest it

can help you bond. but as I said keep it

very short so that’s essentially the

WHAT but HOW you tell it is much, much

more important as I said the question is

a challenge to you to engage with them

and to connect with them on an emotional level.

Often the words you use are less

important than how you say them so

remember rule number one: maintain good

eye contact throughout. This seems

obvious but I’ve seen so many

candidates who don’t look you in the eye

and it’s quite disengaging. Have a good

tone of voice with nice rolling

intonation not flat so that you sound

like a robot. When you get passionate

raise your voice a little

don’t shout though. You can speed up, you

can slow down, you can use hand gestures.

personally I like that some people sit

with their hands on their lap but I

think it’s good to look a little

animated and speak informally your

covering letter and your CV is probably

written in formal English but when you

speak make it sound more conversational

if it sounds too formal you can sound

distant and unapproachable and for the

same reason don’t memorize your answer

learn the key points, yes, but let the

words come out naturally and leave room

for spontaneity. If English is not your

first language you might be worried

about your grammar mistakes well

certainly you shouldn’t be. First of all,

the interviewers are not grammar

teachers (unless of course you’re going

for a job as an English language teacher

and that’s a different story) I assure

you that they won’t notice

any small grammar mistakes they want to

know that you can communicate in English.

You can have perfect grammar and be a

bad communicator and you can have not

good grammar and be a great communicator

and that’s what they want and, as I said,

the words you use are much less

important than the way you communicate

and the story you tell. So even if your

level of English is not that great you

can answer this question and it will put

you in a good position for the rest of

the interview.

OK I’ve talked enough about this so

let me just finish by giving an example

so imagine I’m a project manager at an

interview for a new job so “Tell me

about yourself” I would describe

myself as someone who is versatile and

determined and someone who loves

learning. I’m creative, open-minded and

easygoing and I enjoy working with

others and I try to use all these

qualities in my professional life for

the last six years I’ve been working at

XYZ company I started out at the help

desk where I worked closely with clients

and I built some good relationships.

After that I did a number of roles in

the company and have been promoted

several times now for the last three

years I’ve been working as a project

manager. The company has been pretty

successful and I’d like to think that I

contributed to that success my team has

been developing accounting software for

the publishing industry and within two

years we came from nowhere to being the

number one product in the field. And you

know actually I wasn’t looking for a new

job

I’m quite happy where I am and I kind of

came across your job ad by accident but it

really captivated my imagination your

company is renowned for being one of the

most innovative

in the sector. And I know this is a more

senior than my current position but I do

have the skills and the experience and

the passion you need and I do believe I

can make a positive impact and that’s

why I’m here today. So in a nutshell

that’s who I am professionally and when

I’m not working I like to go hiking at

weekends and I like reading books.

OK that’s it I hope you found that useful

and if you have any tips of your own

about how to answer this question do put

them in the comments and good luck with

the interview stay mellow and I’ll see

you next time.