{"id":19657,"date":"2017-09-28T11:28:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/?page_id=19657"},"modified":"2024-07-29T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T16:41:25","slug":"tell-me-about-yourself","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/how-to-guides\/interview-guide\/questions\/tell-me-about-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"How might you respond to the question, \u201cTell me about yourself?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>The interview has started! \u00a0You are sitting across from the interviewer, and you\u2019ve discussed the weather and the horrible traffic outside.<\/p>\n<p>The interviewer looks at you, smiles, and says, \u201cSo tell me about yourself?\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>What do you say?<\/h3>\n<p>You can prepare for this question by writing a <strong>benefit statement<\/strong> \u2014 a short summary of the benefits that you will bring to the organization. The goal is to capture the interviewer\u2019s interest in 45-60 seconds.<\/p>\n<h3>What does a benefit statement include?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Your academics<\/li>\n<li>Related experiences (Internships\/Work Experience)<\/li>\n<li>Extracurricular or community activities<\/li>\n<li>A one-sentence summary of how your academics, experiences and activities will specifically benefit the organization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"cta\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/how-to-guides\/interview-guide\/questions\/tell-me-about-yourself\/example-of-a-benefit-statement\/\">Example of a benefit statement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interview has started! \u00a0You are sitting across from the interviewer, and you\u2019ve discussed the weather and the horrible traffic outside. The interviewer looks at you, smiles, and says, \u201cSo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8275,"featured_media":0,"parent":19653,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19657","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19657"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41125,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19657\/revisions\/41125"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}