Recession Interview Tip #4: Tell Me About Yourself

First impressions count, and you can only make yours once. So it had better be great, especially during a the most competitive job market in your lifetime.

Making a great first impression has little to do with how shiny your shoes are, how firm of a handshake you give, or your posture - especially in a video interview. Plus, it's still preliminary info ... you make your real first impression during job interviews when you answer:

"So tell me about yourself"

The first sentence in your answers forms the hiring manager's first impression, and usually also determines if you progress in the hiring process.

These are the moxt common answers to "tell me about yourself" and the impression they give to a hiring manager:

1. Describe yourself by job title, years of experience = Average, when the hiring manager expects many average candidates.
2. Go through your work history = Wasting the hiring manager's time, since they already have your resume.
3. Describing your job responsibilities = Forces the hiring manager to guess if you were a success or a failure, since you haven't told them if you fulfilled those responsibilities well, poorly, or at all.
4. Compare yourself to the job description = Shows you can match last year's needs, since almost all job descriptions are at least a year old.
5. Describe how you can solve the hiring manager's current problems, giving examples that show the impact you've made = You've anticipated the hiring manager's needs and shown the things you've done have made an impact at past employers.

Which first impression do you think will help you advance in the hiring process?

If you'd like to learn more about making a first impression that advances you in the hiring process, let me show you. While we're at it, I'll show you how to land a F2F hiring manager interview each week, through the Interview-A-Week Plan.

This is the 3rd recession I've recruited/coached through, so I've seen first hand what resume and job search strategies succeed for job seekers during recessions. I've also seen mistakes candidates make, causing their recession job searches to fail. I've been through this before and know what works and what doesn't.

That's why numerous job seekers who work with me have already gotten job offers this March, April, May, June and July.

As a top national recruiter who reads hundreds of resumes per day, who has helped hundreds of thousands of candidates in their job search, and seen thousands of employers' job search processes from the inside, I've got a different perspective than most career coaches.

I see that most job seekers do essentially the same things, even when they think they are job searching differently. I also see most job seekers were taught search methods that eliminate them from consideration, because they conflict with the employer's hiring process.

But I've been teaching job seekers to beat ATSs for 13+ years by using non-traditional resume/job search strategies that demonstrate impact rather than just being average. I'll show you how to get through and around ATSs and find a great job during the recession by understanding employers' point of view and hiring processes ... and using this understanding to beat your competition.

(I'm not just a career coach. I've also been a top national recruiter for the last 16 years ... so you'll get advice from a different perspective - an insider's point of view.)

Let me show you what you can do now to change your job search and resume so you can beat the ATS during the recession, even if you're between jobs, over 40, trying to change careers or location, if your industry is in decline/consolidation, trying to overcome long term career gaps, family leave, find a remote job, turnaround your job search or other tough to solve job search problems.

Join me Friday 8/7/20 at 11:00am ET/8:00am PT, for my Resume Revolution! webinar (enroll at https://bit.ly/3gfFJCz at no charge) to learn how to beat the ATS and find your next job during the recession.

Want to see how well this can work for you?

"Great cutting edge advice on your resume, the cover letter dilemma and everyone's job search issues and questions. I guarantee you will hear something new in Phil's webinar that you can use in your job search today - information which you have not heard anywhere else! You will not be disappointed." - S.M.

"Phil has a great grasp on the practicalities of recruiting from the employer perspective, as well as the changing trends in seeking out the next opportunity including the use of social media. I have many takeaways from this webinar and recommend this as a must attend!" - F.E.

"This is straight talk from a guy who has the experience, research and contacts, and the know-how to help us maximize our opportunities. He doesn't pitch gimmicks or shortcuts; he gives guidance, answers questions about the job market and how our resumes are handled, and gives tips that help us get the results we want. Well worth it!" - J.M.

"Amazing info shared by Phil in the Resume Revolution Webinar! Who knew that I was wasting my precious time by relying on job boards?? (well, Phil did, of course...)" - S.H.

"His advice on my resume improved my response rate to easily 7/8 for every 10 sent, and I can say the resulting response was directly responsible for helping to find and land my current engagement." - D.M.

You'll Learn All This At Resume Revolution!

* Actionable tips to beat the ATS and find a great job during the recession

* How to double your interviews and resume response rate

* Current job market and recession outlook

* What's different about this recession

* How to optimize your job search and resume to today's market realities

* Why things that worked during a strong job market won't work today

... plus

* Come for the Webinar - Stay for the Q & A with job search experts

Enroll now at https://bit.ly/3gfFJCz , or find our future webinars at https://ResumeWebinar.com .

P.S. I've launched the National Unemployment List and invite you to add your name if you're unemployed, affected by temporary closures, had your hours reduced, or have been laid off. The National Unemployment List will be distributed to employers, hiring managers, internal and external recruiters, to help everyone get back to work quickly. So add your name to the National Unemployment List at https://bit.ly/NationalUnemploymentList.

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