Tell me something about yourself?
This is the question you must have encountered
numerous times during your career path and might be hearing it many more times
in the years ahead. This is actually the “on your marks, get set go!” of the
interview. Before this, you and your interviewer were just settling down in
their respective positions. It is also projected in some more polished manner
like, “run me through your resume” or “walk me through your background” or
“tell me what is not in your resume” and many more variations of it. Basically,
this is an icebreaking question of the interviews and also the base of all the
questions that will be hurled at you during the conversation ahead. It is also
termed as a “positioning statement” by many interview coaches.