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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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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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Слово	Произношение	Значение
resume глагол	/ˈɹɛz.ə.meɪ/	возобновля́ть, возобнови́ть
hire глагол	/ˈhaɪɹ/	брать напрока́т, взять напрока́т
eliminate глагол	/ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/	ликвиди́ровать
requirement существительное	/ɹɪˈkwaɪɹmənt/	необходи́мость, тре́бование
phrase существительное	/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/	фра́за, выраже́ние
qualification существительное	/ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/	квалифика́ция
vast прилагательное	/væst/	обши́рный, огро́мный
percentage существительное	/pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/	проце́нт, проце́нтное отноше́ние
occur глагол	/əˈkɜː/	происходи́ть, произойти́
select глагол	/sɪˈlɛkt/	отбира́ть
recall глагол	/ɹɪˈkɔl/	отзыва́ть, отозва́ть
volunteer существительное	/ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/	доброво́лец, доброво́лица
fence существительное	/fɛns/	забо́р, и́згородь
communicate глагол	/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/	сообща́ть, сообщи́ть
proportion существительное	/pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/	пропо́рция

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Слово	Значение
check out глагол	проверя́ть, прове́рить
come up глагол	поднима́ться, подня́ться
go down глагол	спуска́ться, спусти́ться
take up глагол	поднимать

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Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	I've seen · they've actually read · they've read
Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает	being interviewed · being hired

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 28 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например I'm, don't, gonna. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «sh» и «zh»: qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, proportion /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/, assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/, elimination /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: eliminate /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, elimination /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/, criterion /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

/w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: requirement /ɹɪˈkwaɪɹmənt/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, percentage /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/, oppose /əˈpoʊz/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/

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Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как resume, hire, eliminate.

Что такое техника Shadowing?

Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.

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