面试英语：关于“自我介绍”的注意事项

Let's begin with question number one: "Tell me about yourself?"

The question, "Tell me about yourself," is usually the first question that you will hear in a business interview.

Your goal, in answering this question, is to prove to the interviewer-to show the interviewer-that you have the skills and experience to be the ideal or perfect candidate for the job.

Here are some tips in answering this question: Keep your answer short, at about two minutes.

The person interviewing you wants you to give them an overview-a general idea of your skills and qualifications.

You don't want to talk too much on this first question; two, maybe three minutes is all you will really need.

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.

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.

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.