interview questions and answers for about yourself

Some of the common questions are the ‘Tell Us about Yourself’ interview questions. Your answers to these questions are crucial. Make sure that you are prepared for these types of interview questions.”

So there are high chances that the next question that would be fired on you will be based on the answer of this question. As the answer for this will be based on you, you think and prepare it before the interview.

Answer structure:

• Make a brief of your personal information: name, hometown, age and family status.
• Education: state your main diplomas and certificates in relation to the job.
• Experience: state 3 examples of your experience as you think the most suitable for the job.
• Point out your strengths and weaknesses: This will help the employer assess you more clearly whether you are suitable to the position. Also, describe 3 – 7 strengths on education, experiences, skills and abilities.

Answer tips:

• Give brief and relevant information: Remember that you have a little time to answer and this is the first question that impresses the employer. Therefore, try to give relevant information to the position. You should practice with this question at home. Do not include any irrelevant information in the question.

• Do not describe your salary or pay scale at this point of time (unless explicitly asked).

• Don’t make up the information: The employers have many ways to check the accuracy of the information you provide. As this is the first question, it is easy for them to remember your answers.

• Manage your time of answering within 2 – 3 minutes.

• Provide with more details and figures: This makes it easy for the employers to assess you and may make them impressed. For example, instead of just “help increase the sales”, you can try “help increase the sales by 24.7% within 3 months….

• You should ascertain that none of the information that you provide about yourself is repeated or duplicated from your curriculum vitae. Therefore, even your curriculum vitae should only contain the necessary and relevant information, while all other miscellaneous information should be disclosed during the ‘tell me about yourself’ answers.

• If they stop you in between, stop. Do not try to complete.

• Provide sufficient evidence: such as degrees, certificates or presentation attached to your resume.

• Avoid giving unnecessary details. Value your interviewer's time.

• Lastly, if they do not ask you this question, be sure that you try your best to divert the interview towards your strengths.

Sample answers 

My name is Peter Ho and I am a project coordinator for ABC at present. I have had 06 years of working with LAMP Technology.

For the past 06 years, I have worked full-time for 2 companies. In addition, I have also got 3 part-time jobs as a technical consultant and storyboard writer.

My current responsibility as a project coordinator is to communicate with clients on projects (maintenance or hourly projects), assign tasks to team members, and work as a developer and storyboard writer in my team. By this way, I can control the development of my team and increase the independence of myself from other.

I am looking for challenges which can improve my abilities and opportunities which may help other clients with their projects.

Attention is the best description of my strength. As a project coordinator, there are 02 crucial matters: Deadline & Quality. Thus, I shall try my best to meet the project deadline with the highest quality exceeding the clients’ expectation.