What is the best answer to the interview question 'Tell me something about yourself'?

An interview is not the end of your life, it's the start of a decades-long career, if you succeed, good. If you fail, learn your lessons and move on.

  1. Don't tell your name, qualifications, school, college, and anything else written in the resume, which the interviewer already has in his/her hands.
  2. Talk about your interests (hobbies) like reading, traveling, gaming, music, etc., tell them more, like which books you love, what places have you visited, you like traveling by car or train, which games or sports you love, what type of instrument you play, what type of music you love, favorite singer etc.
  3. Tell them about your goals in life, what you want to achieve. Assure them that you are here to stay and work for the company, and not hop from one company to the other, tell them that you want to gain respect and a good position in the company, someday in the future.
  4. Tell them what field of knowledge or subjects fascinate you, (talk about the concepts in which you are most confident as the interviewer will next ask questions from them.)
  5. Tell them about your qualities with reasonable examples from your life, for instance, if you mention you are a good leader, quote any event where you lead from the front, if you say that you are a workaholic, cite a case where you finished a project of a month in a week.
  6. Tell them why you want to work for this company or study in this college, relate yourself to the job profile and vision of the company. (Don't forget to study your exact job profile and vision of the company from its website in advance.) For example, if the profile is of the marketing field, tell them that you are an extrovert, you can convince people with logic, you like challenging tasks, if it's a research-based job, tell them that you are good in research, you are fascinated by research subjects like Statistics, you enjoyed making research-based projects in your college, etc.

That's it, don't burden yourself with all these points, just read them and keep them in mind, rest be random, and free of thoughts, just freely speak your mind.