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Sometimes, the simplest question can be the most difficult. How many times have you been asked the following question? “So, tell me a little about yourself.” I've always been an advocate of getting the most difficult things out of the way first. So to help you prepare for job interview questions, I feel compelled to deal with this, the absolute favorite question of all interviewers (okay, so it's not really a question!) and the least favorite of most candidates. This little inquiry puts you on the spot in a way no other question can. It turns up the spotlight and your pulse and makes your throat go dry... especially if you are unprepared for it. However, if you prepare, it gives you the opportunity to show interviewers the four traits they are looking for most in job candidates: enthusiasm, confidence, dependability, and intelligence.
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If you are not targeting your job search, you are probably wasting a lot of time... Comments (4)
  written by Rob, April 10, 2010
I was recently coached by a recruiter to answer this question only, repeat, ONLY in the context of the position you are are applying for and for the requisite skills and accomplishments being asked for. In my example, I was being interviewed for a database developer position. While I has some, but limited, experience in that area, I has other IT experience that the company was willing to consider. So I was instructed to only speak "about myself", i.e., customer focus, passion, rewards, contributions & accomplishments, etc., in those terms to the best that I could. I was not to digress into other areas of IT (I was experienced in) in that speech. The same held true for the other "killer" questions about my strengths and my weaknesses. When describing weaknesses, I was to only address how I was hoping to improve my database development skills, but immediately shift back to my strengths and what I can bring to the table.
While I did not get the job (experience does matter in most quarters), I had never felt "more in control" of an interview before!
 written by Robert Shindell, April 13, 2010
@ Rob - Thanks so much for sharing your experience with us here at ILostMyJob.com! This type of peer-to-peer advice and help is amazing. I know so many readers will be inspired by your experience. I think the recruiter gave you some great advise! In interviews, we tend to let the interviewer "control" the flow of conversation. What you did was reverse that! Nice work!
@ Carlos - You bring up an interesting question. I know that we have all had these types of experiences and it is difficult to move past them. Remember... it is difficult to drive forward while looking in the rear-view mirror! Anytime you say negative things about your previous work environment or a specific person in an interview it is an immediate "RED FLAG" for a recruiter. You need to stick to the positives, no matter how bad the negatives were!
 written by Anthony, April 13, 2010
this is in response to Carlos Garcia. Just from the verbiage in your post I can guess that your one of the bottom employees in the department and probaly in teh company. Everything in your world is everyones fault but yours. You come off as entitled and whinny. American idiosyncracies are not a standard in which you should hold yourself. Try reading a book for a change and getting a different view other than your own.
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Many of us have had a non-sales back ground boss, orlike in my case, a foreigner, from an european country, with no idea of american ideosincrasy, and with no intention to adapt to the circumstances. a book follower, no leader ship, an imposer rather than a proposer, and most anoying, he´s conseption of team work ,was to do what ever the company ordered us to do with out questioning.
¿Will like to know how to explain this in an interview? should I tell what they want to hear or my thruth?