Tell Me About Yourself (The BEST Way to Answer this Interview Question)
About this video
Jeff Su shows how to prepare an answer to ‘Tell me about yourself’ using ChatGPT, the Present-Past-Future framework, and a real job posting. He opens with claims he attributes to studies and usage figures: 33% of interviewers make a decision within the first 90 seconds, and 46% of applicants are using ChatGPT and Google Bard in their job search, so not using free AI tools risks being outperformed. Step one is to prompt ChatGPT as a seasoned hiring manager with over 20 years of experience responsible for the posting, paste the full job description, and ask it to highlight the three most important responsibilities. Using a Netflix Sales Operations posting as the example — a role he says he has zero experience in — the output identifies collaborating closely with the sales team to drive advertising revenue, familiarity with sales process management, data hygiene, and sales tool development, and conducting regular pipeline and business reviews with slides and charts for stakeholders. Step two prompts ChatGPT to use his resume to structure a convincing answer under separate headers for Present, Past, and Future, limiting Present to 100 words, Past to 50 words covering only the one most related previous experience, and Future to 100 words connecting his trajectory to the new role. He then edits the roughly 80%-there output in a Google Doc: trimming Present to 96 words to keep the whole answer within two minutes, cutting a redundant achievement example and subjective fluff such as ‘delivered exceptional results’ in favor of an objective metric like a 15x return on investment, keeping only the more relevant of two past experiences, and adding his own short-term and long-term sentences to the Future section to address the concern that he lacks sales operations experience, before ending on ChatGPT’s strong closing about being a valuable asset to Netflix.
Key takeaways
- Use the Present-Past-Future framework and keep the full answer within two minutes: Present capped at 100 words, Past at 50, Future at 100.
- First prompt ChatGPT as a hiring manager for that posting to extract the three most important responsibilities from the job description.
- Then feed in your resume and have ChatGPT draft the answer explicitly tied to those three responsibilities.
- Edit aggressively: cut redundant examples and subjective claims, keeping objective metrics such as a 15x return on investment.
- Write the Future section to directly address the interviewer’s likely concern, such as lack of direct experience in the new function.
Episode details: published October 17, 2023 · 5:50 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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