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Interview Tips: The Right Way To Answer "Tell Me About Yourself"
Business Insider ^
| 06/10/2011
| Patricia Laya
Posted on 06/10/2011 11:37:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
“I could, but then I’d have to kill you.”
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:39:23 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: Truth29
I don’t always drink beer but when I do.....
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:41:47 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: SeekAndFind
“What’s your greatest weakness, Senator Clinton?” “I care too much.” Terrible, but actually quite effective.
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:42:13 AM PDT
by
Genoa
(Luke 12:2)
To: SeekAndFind
Usually I start giggling uncontrollably and describing a gang-rape. I really ought to be able to stifle the giggling, I've had A LOT of interviews.
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:42:39 AM PDT
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: SeekAndFind
"Tell me about yourself."
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:42:58 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: SeekAndFind
I hate that website and the article doesn’t answer the question it poses in any way, shape or form.
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:43:05 AM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: SeekAndFind
"Where do you see yourself in five years?" In your chair.
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:43:53 AM PDT
by
matt1234
(ObamaCare: Killing mommies for commies.)
To: Truth29
I’d rather tell you about you.
Let’s see, yesterday at 4:07 you left for home and arrived at 5:32.
For dinner you had spaghetti and watched reruns of the Simpsons until 6:30.
You spent the rest of the evening reading (I couldn’t see what) and then you went to bed at 10:12.
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:45:21 AM PDT
by
seowulf
("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
To: SeekAndFind
"Tell Me About Yourself" I'm assuming the best response isn't "I refuse to answer on the grounds that I might incriminate myself."
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:45:28 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
(Palin's detractors now resort to "nobody believes she can win because nobody believes she can win")
To: SeekAndFind
Sometimes this question is given by a well-prepared interviewer, but in my experience (on “both sides” of the interview), this question is usually asked by an UNprepared interviewer. S/He (the interviewer) hasn’t even read the applicant’s resume carefully and is killing time as S/He BEGINS to read it while the applicant answers.
Same goes for other cliched questions: Sometimes there’s a good, prepared interviewer asking it, but not usually.
A variation on the theme, meant to make the UNprepared interviewer SOUND prepared by implication, is, “Tell me something about yourself that’s not apparent from your resume.” I really hate these (although I had an answer ready). Dude? The reason stuff IS or IS NOT on my resume is because of what’s important to this job. Jeesh.
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:46:00 AM PDT
by
pogo101
To: SeekAndFind
Tell me about yourself... Before or after the double homicide?
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:46:30 AM PDT
by
JPG
(Sarah Palin, driving the MSM crazy one day at a time.)
To: SeekAndFind
I’ve always found it best to open with a particular quote from Winger, Bill Murray’s caracter, in the movie ‘Stripes’:
“Chicks dig me, because I rarely wear underwear and when I do it’s usually something unusual...”
That always breaks the ice and eases any tension in the room...
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:46:30 AM PDT
by
WayneS
("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
To: SeekAndFind
I was once part of a "group interview" with 2 other candidates. The question was: "Can you describe your skills?"
First guy: "We don't have enough time. I have too many skills to list them all."
That was his entire answer.
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:46:55 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
To: pogo101
"Tell me something about yourself thats not apparent from your resume."
OK...judging from the tone of this interview, my IQ is 45 to 50 points higher than yours.....think that would get me the job?
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:49:19 AM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
To: SeekAndFind
“Well, I’m a jolly kind of guy to have around when I remember to take my meds, and my Parole Officer says that the survivors of that little thing with the fire axe have pretty much laughed the whole thing off by now. Do you think the ankle bracelet spoils the hang of this suit?”
To: pogo101
As an oft-unprepared interviewer, all I have to say about your spurious accusation is... Okay, you got me...
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:50:26 AM PDT
by
WayneS
("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
To: SeekAndFind
"So, why did you leave your last place of employment?"
"Well after I was fired, I figured it was bad form to remain in the building."
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:50:39 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed: he's hated on seven continents)
To: matt1234
RE: “Where do you see yourself in five years?”
In your chair.
________________________________________________________________________
Next question — “And where do you expect me to be if you are in my chair?”
To: ClearCase_guy
At least he didn’t lack self confidence...
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:51:58 AM PDT
by
WayneS
("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
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