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ESLPod.com presents "Interview Questions Answered," episode one.
Since you can expect that this question will be asked in the interview, you should prepare something that you can tell the person-the general qualifications that you have-in that short amount of time.
Our second tip is to focus on work-related skills and accomplishments, not personal information.
When the interviewer asks you to tell him or her about yourself, they're interested in things that are related to the job.
You may have some personal accomplishments or personal information, but what you want to do mostly here is to talk about why you are good person for the job.
So, don't talk about your family, or a good vacation you went on, or something that you have done that is not related to the job in some way.
Our third tip is to tell the interviewer why you think your work-related skills and accomplishments would be an asset to the company.
An asset is a positive contribution to the company.
You want to tell the person interviewing you not just what your skills are-the things that you can do, and the things that you have done-your accomplishments-you also want to tell them why these are related-why they are important for the company-why you would be able to give something to the company it doesn't have right now because of your skills and accomplishments.
Fourth, you want to describe your education or work history very briefly.
Normally, if you're going on an interview, you would talk about, very briefly, what you studied in college, for example, what degrees you have.
Do you have a bachelor's degree, do you have a master's degree, do you have a Ph.D., a doctorate?
You want to tell them where you went to school, what you studied at the school, and then you want to say a little bit about companies you've worked with or worked for and what positions you have had in those companies.
So, you want to give them some information so they know, in general, what you've been doing before you came to this interview.
You don't normally want to talk about your high school or grade school; most employers are not interested in that, unless you only graduated from high school-that you haven't gone to college yet-then you might mention your high school degree-your high school diploma.