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Hey everyone!

So tell me about yourself.

The most common job interview question of all time.

Usually the thing that they ask you first as an icebreaker when you first sit down at your job interview.

Now there are a million ways to answer this open -ended question

and there's also about a million YouTube videos out there giving you various ways to answer it.

But today I'm going to give you the quickest, simplest, best way I've seen to answer this question.

Okay let's look at this thing from the other side of the fence.

Let's look at it from the perspective of the recruiter or hiring manager.

Usually when you post a position, you get a lot of responses and you may well end up with,

especially these days, with over a hundred candidates applying for the position.

So for you, this is an elimination game.

Your job is to go from a hundred applications down to one candidate that you select.

Now, from the perspective of the job seeker who is being interviewed, you don't know the criteria they use to eliminate people.

Oh sure, there's posted requirements for the position, but the problem is more than one person may meet all posted requirements.

So there's often a hidden criteria that they don't tell you of what will get you eliminated or hired.

For example, something I've seen in the past is a hiring manager who's a fan of a particular sports team

and if you happen to volunteer that you're a fan of the opposing sports team

that may be grounds to eliminate you on the fact

that you might not be a good fit

and this does happen now we're going to make one assumption here

and that is that they've actually read your resume

if you apply for a position and you send in your resume

and then they later receive it and then call you in for an interview usually

that means that they've read your resume not always i have seen cases where that hasn't actually occurred.

But in the vast majority of cases, we can assume this to be true.

So what does this mean?

This means that the content on your resume is safe.

Everything you've written on there did not result in you getting eliminated.

So it's safe content to use.

And we're going to be coming back to that.

Now, when you get asked, tell me about yourself in a job interview, this is what you do.

Start off by saying, well, as you can see from my resume,

that's the first thing you say then go down your resume in chronological order starting with the oldest material

and then getting closer to the present

and finally talking about your most recent experience

this should take about 45 seconds no more than a minute then end with the phrase

and that's what brings me here today and why i'm excited to learn more about this opportunity you

You see, your purpose in a job interview is to communicate to the person interviewing you how you're the person for the job,

how you meet all the qualifications.

That's your purpose in the interview.

You don't want to waste your time talking about something you did 15 years ago

that has absolutely nothing to do with this position and is just taking up time.

That's why you want to summarize your resume in 45 seconds to a minute.

No more than that, really.

See, it's a well -known fact that people absorb and retain only a small proportion of what they hear.

It's like a very small percentage of what you hear that you actually understand and retain and can recall later.

So that's why you want to mention more than once how you meet all the qualifications.

You want to make sure it registers.

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,

and then you summarize your resume in about 45 seconds to a minute.

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,

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.

See, you want to spend as much time as possible talking about this opportunity, not stuff you've done in the past.

That's why it's very important to try

and steer the conversation from something you've done years ago to get them to talk about this position

so you can explain how you meet the requirements.

So this is actually part of a new YouTube series I'm doing.

I'm going to go through all the common job interview questions and we're going to talk about the hiring process in general.

I actually teach this at a postgraduate level

and I've been on both sides of it hiring and being hired

so hopefully that'll be useful for you please take a moment now to click the like subscribe

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and consider supporting me there too

so once again i'm bill the company's expert thank you so much for being here and watching my videos you're awesome

Thank you.

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単語	発音	意味
resume 動詞	/ˈɹɛz.ə.meɪ/	再開する
hire 動詞	/ˈhaɪɹ/	借りる
eliminate 動詞	/ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/	除去する
requirement 名詞	/ɹɪˈkwaɪɹmənt/	要求
phrase 名詞	/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/	句, 語句
qualification 名詞	/ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/	資格
vast 形容詞	/væst/	広大な, 莫大な
percentage 名詞	/pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/	百分率, 百分比
occur 動詞	/əˈkɜː/	起こる, 起る
select 動詞	/sɪˈlɛkt/	選ぶ
recall 動詞	/ɹɪˈkɔl/	呼び返す
volunteer 名詞	/ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/	有志, ボランティア
fence 名詞	/fɛns/	柵, 塀
communicate 動詞	/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/	伝える
proportion 名詞	/pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/	割合, 比例

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
check out 動詞	試験する, 検査する
come up 動詞	上がる, 登る
go down 動詞	降りる, 降下する

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文型	動画での表現
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	I've seen · they've actually read · they've read
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	being interviewed · being hired

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話し手はI'm, don't, gonnaなど、短縮形や弱形を28回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

「sh」と「zh」の音: qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, proportion /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/, assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/, elimination /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: eliminate /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, elimination /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/, criterion /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: recall /ɹɪˈkɔl/, volunteer /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/, chronological /ˌkɹɑnəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/, chronologically /ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒdʒɪkli/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: vast /væst/, volunteer /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, fence /fɛns/

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まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。resume, hire, eliminateなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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