How to answer "Walk me through your resume" or "Tell me about yourself"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2024
- Learn how to create THE BEST answer to "walk me through your resume" or "tell me about yourself that will impress your interviewers!
"Tell me about yourself" is the same question as "Walk me through your resume". This question is sometimes overlooked and it's actually a very important part of your interview. Moreover, the story you create to answer this question can serve as an introduction for a coffee chat, a networking event or a phone call with a recruiter.
@01:20 Framework you can use
@08:23 Example
@11:56 Most common mistakes
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How to structure Tell me about yourself or Walk me through your resume?
Introduction:
* The introduction is just a brief mention of who you are, where are you from and what did you study in college and why. And think that this "why did you study whatever you studied in college" as the beginning of a chain of decisions that leads to you being interested in, for example, the Tech industry.
Your Job or Jobs
* Start with a brief description of your job and the company you worked for. Don't describe your job, but rather highlight the skills that you learned, any promotions you got and WHY did you transitioned to your next role (or project).
* Your whole story is building up to a point where your experiences, your skills and the transitions you made are all connected to the job you are applying to. So when you think of what skills you learned in your different jobs, connect them to the job you are interviewing for.
* You can also mention a very successful project or accomplishment at any of your roles to serve as a teaser and invite the interviewer to ask you more questions about it.
* Transitions from one job, or a project, to next are about new things that you wanted to learn and realizing that you needed more experience on things related to the Job you want today. Remember that if you are a student, you can show how you transitioned from one project to the next or even to an internship and how all your story is building up to the job you are interviewing for.
Closing your introduction:
* There are different approaches that you can take to close your "Tell me about yourself" or "walk me through your resume" - but the constant thing is to be confident of your approach. The interview is also a dialogue, so make sure that you read your interviewer's expressions - if they want to ask you questions, pause and let them talk.
* At the end of your interview you can, for example:
- Finish your story and let the interviewer ask their next question:
- " And now, after all this experience I'm really excited to be here and happy to answer any questions you have"
* You can also lead the conversation and start getting into questions like "Why Product Management" (or the role you are applying to)
- " And this latest experience led me to believe that Product Management is the next step for me. Here are a few reasons why:…"
* Or you can also answer the question of "Why this company?"
- " And after I had the opportunity to speak with Diego about Microsoft, I'm really excited to be interviewing with you today. In fact, here are a few reasons why I believe that Microsoft is a fantastic place to work:…."
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Hi Diego, I really wanted to thank you for creating this video. I have always discounted my story thinking it’s irrelevant with product management and only focus on my current experience after I made the switch as a PM. I followed your pattern and I can finally be happy with my own story/journey . As a bonus, I landed a new job with this opening!
That's amazing! Thank you for sharing and congratulations on your new job!!!
I follow you on Twitter for your tips and already find them plenty helpful. However this video is 100!! Highly insightful and easy to build my own story after
It's helpful full, thank you
Amazing way to put across introduction which aligns to a role interviewing for. Thanks a lot Diego.
Really useful Diego! Thanks
Best Video on this first question which can make or break !!
this is gonna create a first impression so so better
This is such a great video! I love love how you've simplified the format. I thought I had a great answer to this question already, but now its gonna be so much better :)
Thank you Alisa, I’m glad that you liked the video and that it’ll help you improve your answer! Let me know how your interviews go!
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This video is gold
Totally unrelated but I have the same painting thats in your background! I absolutely love all the paintings by that artist !!
It's amazing how you stitched together everything in one smooth-flowing story. Your videos and LinkedIn posts are really helpful! Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us!!
Thank you so much, Sukriti! I’m really glad that you liked it 😊
Oh man! The entire story is so beautifully crafted and so well explained. Absolutely love your work. Your videos are really helpful. Thanks for sharing. More power to you!
Thanks a ton!
As always, insightful!!
Thank you Ananth!
This is gold like your other videos. I connected with you over LinkedIn and spoke over the phone in the month of May. Happy to see that you are helping the community to break into PM roles, on a bigger scale.
Thank you so much for your comment, Sai!
This is super helpful and very well articulated. I've been watching your videos to prepare for my PM interviews and they're adding so much value! Thank you! :)
Thank you, Ishita! If you have any feedback or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks!
Very well articulated, crisp, to the point, first time have seen such wonderful video.
Thank you, @Balaji! I’m glad that you liked the video 😄
This is one of the best “Tell me about yourself “ video I have ever watched. 🤗 Learned a lot of things in this single video. Can’t wait to binge watch other videos and learn a lot 👏😄!
Wow, thank you! I'm really glad that you liked it!
Thanks Diego for the wonderful video. I really love the structure you've built in answering this question. Will use this structure the next time I respond to such a question... 😀😀
Glad it was helpful! Let me know how it goes once you use it :)
Thank you for this video! This helped me simplify my introduction and transition into why I am interviewing for a new position!
Glad it was helpful!
Hey Diego, can I just say the example your provided with the visual prop ( slide ) is the best I have seen so far? I have been working in product space for many years now and this is the first video where I could see simplicity backed with powerful words to define oneself for a PM role. Amazing!
Thank you so much @Ashima! I’m really glad that you liked it! 🙌🙌🙌 thank you for watching 😊
Great video and information Diego thanks for sharing it! Could you please create/share your videos on different frameworks for prioritizing product features?
Really helpful video!!
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing video!
Thank you, Julie! I’m glad you liked it! 😁
Now I know the best way to answer the "Tell me about yourself" or "Walk me through your resume". As product managers, we need to structure everything we do. After this kind of answer, recruiters will start to know our skills are related to product management.
¡Hola Diego! Thank you very much for this! Tomorrow I have my first Amazon interview and definitely I was not going to start good without this knowledge, thank you very much! I will update you :)
How about the interview? Hope everything goes well
I was interviewing at a large well-known company and got this question. I started off talking about my degree, then experiences and products I shipped. After the question the interviewer was very aggravated. Their response was "It really shows your priorities that you would mention your degree before talking about actual PM experience. Of course you have a degree. Everyone I have interviewed has a degree. Who cares, you should have told me what you built". They also said university should be one of the last items on the CV. The interview ended after only 15m into a 1h time allotment.
Did I dodge a bullet with a crazy interviewer/potential boss, or should one be more careful putting their degree upfront instead of metrics and products?
Wow, that’s a crazy thing! Imagine being completely disqualified because you mentioned your degree at the beginning… imo you dodged a very toxic environment
I'm wondering how this should be framed for someone who has come with more than 10 years of experience
That’s a good question. In the end, this answer should be concise and to the point - it has to be tailored to the role you are interviewing for so some parts of the experience can be summarized if they don’t directly have a lot of relevance to the role. for example:
“.... the next 5 years, at worked at X, Y & Z companies where I learned about (skill 1)& (skill 2). In my next role I....” and continue with the story.
You want to make sure your story is as related as possible to the role you are interviewing for
Thank you! This was helpful! However, out of the overall experience, if 7 years was into engineering and 3 years was into product management. Does one need to start talking about engineering first and then talk about transitioning to PM?
Yes! Start by talking about your experience in engineering and all the skills that you learned that are TRANSFERRABLE into PM :)
Don’t focus just on the technical skills - focus on how your 7 years of experience in eng prepared you for a PM role. Does this make sense? Let me know and I can go into details if needed
I would love your help here as I go struggle with framing the narrative, where need to also weave in the job description
I think 5 minutes is too much, max 1- 2 minutes is what I think, interviewer loose the track and get bored in 3-4 minutes
Well, we are able to listen to audiobooks and watch movies for hours. If someone gets bored after 3 minutes of listening to someone’s story the problem is not the time, it’s the story 😉
5 minutes is, in my opinion, a hard max limit simply because an interview will consist of many questions.
Remember, it’s not about time - it’s about how you craft your story ✌️
Does anyone else think these answers are very bland and all sound the same as what everyone else is saying? I would be very bored hearing these responses.