How can I introduce myself in one minute?

The one-minute self-introduction should focus on the key points, be clean and neat, and revolve around the center of the interview. With a captivating opening statement, a informative boast, and finally a high-value non-work experience, your self-introduction will surely make the interviewer shine.

1. Three self-introductions that are easy to go astray

You start to participate in the interview, and sit down after greetings.

Scenario 1:

The interviewer said: "Please take 3 minutes to briefly introduce yourself." You started to answer: "My name is Zhang San, male, 23 Years old, native of Beijing, China, Han nationality, graduated from Caledon University in Home Economics in 2017. During college, I had excellent academic performance and participated in blabla?"

I promise that within 1 minute, the interviewer will not patient. Because these contents are written on the resume, and the resume is in his hand at the moment, he can listen and read it at the same time, but he doesn't want to hear what he has read again.

Scene 2:

"My name is Zhang San. I graduated from the University of Calgary with a major in home economics. I served as the Minister of Literature and Art of the Student Union during college, and I also had some part-time jobs outside of school. In the process, I practiced I have the ability to endure hardships, have strong communication skills, and have good execution skills?"

In this way, I am slightly better than the previous classmate, but there are still problems. The problem is that you say that you can endure hardships, communicate well, and have strong execution skills, etc., but the interviewer does not have the same understanding as you at this stage, because before there are actual examples to prove that you have these abilities, he will quickly Ignore these words and you will say them all in vain.

Scene 3:

You said, the purpose is to let the interviewer remember me, then I will say this: "My name is Zhang San. I was born in an intellectual family. My parents They are both teachers. I have loved reading since I was a child and have studied a wide range of subjects. I am familiar with classics such as "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" and "A Dream of Red Mansions". I won the first prize in the city's essay competition and often speak on behalf of outstanding student cadres, blabla?"

Hearing this, do you think it’s special to introduce yourself like this? Do you think the interviewer will remember your specialness? Yes, it is very special and the interviewer will remember it. However, I want to say that if your "specialness" has nothing to do with the position you are applying for, then it is equivalent to nonsense. Unless you are interviewing for a position such as news editor, but for this kind of position, just reading books is not enough. Therefore, introducing yourself in this way is also wrong.

2. Is the self-introduction consistent with the resume?

Self-introduction is an opportunity to promote yourself, an advertisement for your "product". You have to target customer needs. Now your client is the interviewer. You have to show your best side in just a few minutes, not only to impress the other person, but also to make him have a "desire to buy", which is to further confirm your You are the one he wants and will eventually admit you.

You need to introduce yourself to remind the interviewer what your characteristics are and why you are particularly suitable for this position. Next, let’s analyze what do the interviewers want to hear from your self-introduction? The interviewer has three purposes for asking you to introduce yourself: opening transition, authenticity verification (that is, identifying authenticity), and preliminarily determining whether your basic situation matches the job requirements.

Let’s talk about the opening transition first, especially during the school recruitment season. There are too many interviewers, and some interviewers don’t even have time to read or look at your resume carefully. This process of self-introduction actually allows him to have a preliminary understanding of you. The basic situation has an impression link. Let’s talk about testing the truth. What aspects are tested for the truth? The main thing is to verify whether the self-introduction matches the content of the resume.

The interviewer's first impression of you comes from your resume. Listening to your own dictation can further elaborate on the vague points in your words and whether they match your resume. Don't laugh, that's very important.

You said I wrote my own resume, how could I not match it?

It’s really hard to say. In my career, I have encountered too many situations like this. I wrote that I had organized activities, and after listening to the self-introduction, I was actually just a walk-on or a spectator; the meaning of the writing is , it means another thing when spoken. At this time, the interviewer will definitely question your honesty, and if you meet an experienced interviewer and your resume is fake, it will definitely be exposed at this level. You said, can it be okay if I don’t say anything? Let him read it for himself, and I said: "It says it all on the resume."

I just wanted to ask: Are you stupid? Still want to find a job? Are you a rich second generation with no shortage of money, or are you a rare talent waiting for others to provide for you like a master? Can we still have a pleasant interview together? If you answer like this, you are overestimating your capabilities, seeking death, and digging your own grave. The interviewer's first impression score will be directly 0. How can the interviewer tell that you are faking it?

I once met an interviewer. When I looked at his resume, I thought it was perfect. There were no flaws. Every achievement was excellent, every organized event was grand and successful, and every work experience was seamless. connect. I questioned it at the time, how could I have such a perfect learning and career experience. Real things will have flaws, only fake ones will be perfect. Things that are too perfect are often illusions. Sure enough, he found a lot of suspicious signs during the interview, and decided to do a background check, but then he stopped.

Another time, at a special job fair on campus, I received many resumes from the same school (I won’t say which school) that matched the majors required for our company’s positions. A fresh graduate interviewed and introduced himself to the position. He was the president of the student union, so I didn’t pay much attention to him at the time.

When I interviewed the third classmate from their major, I accidentally said that I had just interviewed the student union president of your department, XXX. He was stunned for a moment and said that the president of their student union was another person. I’ve never heard of this XXX, maybe I’m mistaken. I was petrified at the time. I went back and carefully checked their personal information. They were indeed from the same school, department, and major.

In fact, the same is true in the workplace. The circles in many industries are very small. Your fraud will be discovered inadvertently. Even if you are lucky enough to conceal the past and pass the interview, you may accidentally make mistakes in the future. Revealed. Your resume is yourself. You can write it in more detail and layout it better, but don’t make any lies. Integrity is the most important thing for all companies when recruiting. The company's employment principle is always to prioritize integrity over ability.

As for whether you match the job requirements, remember that companies are never looking for the best, but the most suitable. In fact, it is the same as looking for a boyfriend or girlfriend.

3. The interview will initially examine your basic abilities and qualities

The interview is not just for you to chat, it is the basis for judging your thinking and abilities. Therefore, in the second aspect, the interview is to initially examine your thinking, logic, language expression, summarizing and refining abilities, as well as your understanding, integrity, loyalty, morality, values, etc. Of course, the self-introduction step is still a preliminary inspection. The interviewer will ask further questions about which aspects of your abilities and qualities you are interested in.

So in the self-introduction session, you must fully demonstrate these abilities and qualities. But there are so many abilities and qualities, how do you choose in just 3 minutes?