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Job Interview Guidelines

The document provides guidance on how to effectively answer the interview question 'Tell me about yourself' and discusses the importance of tailoring responses to the listener's expectations and the job context. It emphasizes the need to highlight personal experience, strengths, and expectations while maintaining authenticity and confidence. Additionally, it outlines a sample answer structure and offers tips for a follow-up question about future career aspirations.

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Job Interview Guidelines

The document provides guidance on how to effectively answer the interview question 'Tell me about yourself' and discusses the importance of tailoring responses to the listener's expectations and the job context. It emphasizes the need to highlight personal experience, strengths, and expectations while maintaining authenticity and confidence. Additionally, it outlines a sample answer structure and offers tips for a follow-up question about future career aspirations.

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“Tell me about yourself”

How to start?
 Who is your listener?
 Language, manner.
 What does the listener want to hear?
 Context, environment.
 What do you want him or her to know about you?
“Tell me about yourself.”

In a job interview
Example
 Post: Social media manager
Good or Bad? Why?
 “Well, I grew up with social media, and I’ve used social
media for a long time. So, I’m very familiar with it. About
three years ago, I thought, maybe I could actually make a
living doing this. And I started taking on a couple of clients
here and there, and I’ve worked with a couple people. Now, I
want to settle down and I’m looking for a stable job. I’m
looking for a company that could offer good growth
potential, good growth opportunity. Also, this place is not far
from my home. So, here I am today.”

It’s all about “me”


Answer formula
1. What you have
 Experience, Achievements
2. What you are good at
 Strengths
3. What you expect
 Expectations
What you have
 “I have been …”
 “I specialize in …”
 “My background is …”
What you have
 “I have been doing social media for the last three years, and I
specialize in helping companies and entrepreneurs growing
their Facebook fan page. And in the last three years alone, I
have helped dozens of clients in over ten different industries.
I have helped my clients to really increase their engagement
and grow their fan page by three to five hundred percent in
less than six months. And that’s what I am passionate about.
In fact, I have listed some of those client that I’ve worked
with on the reference letter.”
What you are good at
 “My strength is …”
 “I am really good at …”
What you are good at
 “My strength is my ability to truly understand what the
audience want. I pride myself for creating engaging and
compelling content that I know the audience loves and wants
to share.”
What you expect
 “What I am looking for is …”
What you expect
 “What I am looking for is a company that I could add value
to, that I could produce a positive return on investment for. A
place where I can join a strong team.”
“Tell me about yourself.”

Sample answer
1. “I have been doing social media for the last three years, and
I specialize in helping companies and entrepreneurs
growing their Facebook fan page. And in the last three
years alone, I have helped dozens of clients in over ten
different industries. I have helped my clients to really
increase their engagement and grow their fan page by three
to five hundred percent in less than six months. And that’s
what I am passionate about. In fact, I have listed some of
those client that I’ve worked with on the reference letter.
2. My strength is my ability to truly understand what the
audience want. I pride myself for creating engaging and
compelling content that I know the audience loves and
wants to share.
3. What I am looking for is a company that I could add value
to, that I could produce a positive return on investment for.
A place where I can join a strong team.”
How to answer?
 Show your values.
 Achievements, strengths.
 Focus on what you can offer the company.
 What problems can you solve for the company?
 Be your best self.
 Be authentic and confident.
 DO NOT share everything. DO NOT be arrogant.
 Prepare. Practice. Rehearse.
“Where do you see yourself in five
years?”
Job interview
Common answers
Good or Bad? Why?
1. “In the future, I want to be a manager.”
2. “In five years, I would like to start my own business.”
3. “In the near future, I see myself becoming key personnel in
the company.”
Why asked?
 They want to make sure you actually want to work for their
company in the long-term.
 DO NOT show any hints that you plan to leave in the near
future.
 They want to make sure you really focus on this job and what
this job offers.
 DO NOT show that you are overly ambitious.
Good or Bad? Why?
1. “In the future, I want to be a manager.”
2. “In five years, I would like to start my own business.”
3. “In the near future, I see myself becoming key personnel in
the company.”

It’s all about what you


want / Who you want to be
How to answer?
 Post : Accounting Department
Part One – Sample answer
 In the first 2 or 3 years, I see myself becoming a true expert
at my role as a … (job title) at … (company). I plan to really
immerse myself in the position, understand areas that can be
improved on, really get to know the ins and outs of the
business and look for the opportunities to make the finance
team and department as efficient as possible.
Part One – key words
 Learning
 Understanding
 Adapting
 Immersing
 Improving
Part Two – Sample answer
 For the 2 or 3 years after that, I see myself as a key finance
business partner to all the other teams in the company. I want
to be able to extend my expertise and offer help to other
departments using skills and knowledge gained from my role.
Part Two – key words
 Offering
 Help
 Values
 Dedicating
 In the first 2 or 3 years, I see myself becoming a true expert
at my role as a … (job title) at … (company). I plan to really
immerse myself in the position, understand areas that can be
improved on, really get to know the ins and outs of the
business and look for the opportunities to make the finance
team and department as efficient as possible.
 For the 2 or 3 years after that, I see myself as a key finance
business partner to all the other teams in the company. I
want to be able to extend my expertise and offer help to
other departments using skills and knowledge gained from
my role.
What to remember?
 DO NOT focus on

 Who you will be

 FOCUS on

What you will do


What to remember?
 Put more focus on what the interviewers want to hear, not
what you want.
 Put more focus on what you can do, not who you want to be.
 Keep your mind on…
 The job you are applying
 The department and the company.
ASSIGNMENT
 Make a video recording yourself answering the questions to apply for an
international scholarship:
 Can you tell me about yourself?
 Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
 Submit your assignment onto LMS forum. Deadline: March 28, 2025.
 This assignment is equivalent to your Test 2
 Your score will be decided on:
 The content (50 points)
 Do you apply what you have learnt in class?
 Your speaking (30 points)
 Pronunciation? Fluency? Are you reading or speaking?
 Your appearance (10 points)
 Do you wear suitable clothing in the video?
 Video background (10 points)

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