What does an interviewer want to hear when he asks 'tell me about yourself ' ?

@alok-mishra-E4tgN8 • Oct 26, 2024

Oct 26, 2024

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Whenever i am asked to tell about myself to interviewer i start telling him but then i feel that i am reading my cv , like telling him everything about academics and percentage of marks etc. This all is already written in cv . I dont know whether this impresses interviewer or not but i want to know what an interviewer want to hear from us when he asks ' tell me about yourself ' ?

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 2, 2013

If your resume is your complete representation of you, then you may declare so. But interviewers are typically looking to know what's beyond your resume; maybe the lighter, social side of you. If you are repeating things mentioned in the resume, you're simply wasting time.

This question has been discussed in depth before. Do go through following discussions -

<a href="https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/how-to-answer-tell-me-us-about-yourself-in-interviews.3959">How to answer "Tell me/us about yourself" in interviews</a>

<a href="https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/how-to-answer-for-the-question-tell-me-about-yourself.31838">How to answer for the question , Tell me about yourself?</a>

Feel free to post your doubts, questions. 😀

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Saijayadeep

@saijayadeep-5PFk4D • Feb 19, 2014

i have seen some posts saying that "Thanks for giving me an opportunity to introduce myself" Is it necessary? Like i feel its odd...i don't know why can anyone help me?
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Shailaja Tiwari

@shailaja-tiwari-lKhGjd • Feb 19, 2014

ACCORDING TO ME,MOST INTERVIEWERS WOULD PREFERABLY SEE HOW YOU ANSWER RATHER THAN WHAT YOU ANSWER............
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Anand Tamariya

@anand-tamariya-DnfjEX • Feb 19, 2014

In most cases, this question indicates that the interviewer hasn't read your resume before coming to the interview. Your answer buys him the time to read it and also saves him some trouble reading it!!
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Alok mishra

@alok-mishra-E4tgN8 • Feb 19, 2014

Anand Tamariya
In most cases, this question indicates that the interviewer hasn't read your resume before coming to the interview. Your answer buys him the time to read it and also saves him some trouble reading it!!
if so then answering the question (i.e. tell me about yourself ) in a 'cv reading' manner would be a help to interviewer .
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Anoop Kumar

@anoop-kumar-GDGRCn • Feb 19, 2014

Alok mishra
if so then answering the question (i.e. tell me about yourself ) in a 'cv reading' manner would be a help to interviewer .
Tell interviewer..
"I guess you didn't find your PRECIOUS time to read my CV, so here it is..." 😁
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Anand Tamariya

@anand-tamariya-DnfjEX • Feb 19, 2014

Alok mishra
if so then answering the question (i.e. tell me about yourself ) in a 'cv reading' manner would be a help to interviewer .
If "CV reading" means repeating word-by-word, then you're in trouble. That means
- you have poor conversation skills
- possibly, somebody else wrote your CV
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