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Hey everyone!
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So tell me about yourself.
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The most common job interview question of all time.
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Usually the thing that they ask you first as an icebreaker when you first sit down at your job interview.
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Now there are a million ways to answer this open -ended question
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and there's also about a million YouTube videos out there giving you various ways to answer it.
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But today I'm going to give you the quickest, simplest, best way I've seen to answer this question.
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Okay let's look at this thing from the other side of the fence.
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Let's look at it from the perspective of the recruiter or hiring manager.
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Usually when you post a position, you get a lot of responses and you may well end up with,
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especially these days, with over a hundred candidates applying for the position.
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So for you, this is an elimination game.
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Your job is to go from a hundred applications down to one candidate that you select.
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Now, from the perspective of the job seeker who is being interviewed, you don't know the criteria they use to eliminate people.
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Oh sure, there's posted requirements for the position, but the problem is more than one person may meet all posted requirements.
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So there's often a hidden criteria that they don't tell you of what will get you eliminated or hired.
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For example, something I've seen in the past is a hiring manager who's a fan of a particular sports team
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and if you happen to volunteer that you're a fan of the opposing sports team
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that may be grounds to eliminate you on the fact
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that you might not be a good fit
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and this does happen now we're going to make one assumption here
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and that is that they've actually read your resume
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if you apply for a position and you send in your resume
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and then they later receive it and then call you in for an interview usually
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that means that they've read your resume not always i have seen cases where that hasn't actually occurred.
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But in the vast majority of cases, we can assume this to be true.
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So what does this mean?
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This means that the content on your resume is safe.
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Everything you've written on there did not result in you getting eliminated.
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So it's safe content to use.
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And we're going to be coming back to that.
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Now, when you get asked, tell me about yourself in a job interview, this is what you do.
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Start off by saying, well, as you can see from my resume,
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that's the first thing you say then go down your resume in chronological order starting with the oldest material
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and then getting closer to the present
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and finally talking about your most recent experience
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this should take about 45 seconds no more than a minute then end with the phrase
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and that's what brings me here today and why i'm excited to learn more about this opportunity you
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You see, your purpose in a job interview is to communicate to the person interviewing you how you're the person for the job,
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how you meet all the qualifications.
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That's your purpose in the interview.
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You don't want to waste your time talking about something you did 15 years ago
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that has absolutely nothing to do with this position and is just taking up time.
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That's why you want to summarize your resume in 45 seconds to a minute.
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No more than that, really.
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See, it's a well -known fact that people absorb and retain only a small proportion of what they hear.
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It's like a very small percentage of what you hear that you actually understand and retain and can recall later.
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So that's why you want to mention more than once how you meet all the qualifications.
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You want to make sure it registers.
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So when you get the question, tell me about yourself, all you have to do is say, well, as you can see from my resume,
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and then you summarize your resume in about 45 seconds to a minute.
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Maybe start with your education, start with your oldest experience, and then come up chronologically to the present, where you end with your most recent experience,
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and then you end with the phrase, and that's what brings me here today, and why I'm excited to learn more about this opportunity.
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See, you want to spend as much time as possible talking about this opportunity, not stuff you've done in the past.
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That's why it's very important to try
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and steer the conversation from something you've done years ago to get them to talk about this position
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so you can explain how you meet the requirements.
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So this is actually part of a new YouTube series I'm doing.
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I'm going to go through all the common job interview questions and we're going to talk about the hiring process in general.
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I actually teach this at a postgraduate level
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and I've been on both sides of it hiring and being hired
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so hopefully that'll be useful for you please take a moment now to click the like subscribe
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and bell buttons and also be sure to check out my patreon site for some extra content
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and consider supporting me there too
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so once again i'm bill the company's expert thank you so much for being here and watching my videos you're awesome
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Thank you.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Tell Me About Yourself”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: resume, interview, position, hiring, meet. Questo video contiene 26 frasi e 897 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:57. Chi parla va veloce, circa 181 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 89% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| resume verbo | /ˈɹɛz.ə.meɪ/ | riprendere, continuare |
| hire verbo | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | assoldare, noleggiare |
| eliminate verbo | /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/ | eliminare |
| requirement sostantivo | /ɹɪˈkwaɪɹmənt/ | requisito |
| phrase sostantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | espressione, polirematica |
| qualification sostantivo | /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ | certificazione |
| vast aggettivo | /væst/ | ampio, vasto |
| percentage sostantivo | /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/ | percentuale |
| occur verbo | /əˈkɜː/ | verificarsi |
| select verbo | /sɪˈlɛkt/ | scegliere, selezionare |
| recall verbo | /ɹɪˈkɔl/ | ritirare, revocare |
| volunteer sostantivo | /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/ | volontario, volontaria |
| fence sostantivo | /fɛns/ | recinto, steccato |
| communicate verbo | /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/ | comunicare, informare |
| proportion sostantivo | /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/ | proporzione |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| check out verbo | investigare |
| come up verbo | venire fuori, emergere |
| go through verbo | attraversare |
| take up verbo | sollevare, prendere |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've seen · they've actually read · they've read |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | being interviewed · being hired |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 28 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, don't, gonna. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, proportion /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/, assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/, elimination /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: eliminate /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, elimination /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/, criterion /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: eliminate /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, requirement /ɹɪˈkwaɪɹmənt/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, vast /væst/, percentage /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: vast /væst/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/, postgraduate /ˌpəʊstˈɡɹædju.ət/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come resume, hire, eliminate.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.