What is the answer of a common interview question –“ Tell me about yourself”

Whenever we appear for an interview, the first question arises , “ Tell me about yourself.”

This question is almost asked with every interviewee , because at the same time, interviewer read your CV and he want to break the ice between them. But most of us, could not able to give a perfect answer to this first question. So, Always be prepared to answer for this question.

How to start the Answer :

Tell your name , “ I am .” Don’t say “ Myself ”. Then tell us about your education, “ I am post graduate in Business management from . “

Then tell them about your job experience from start to finish – “I have total of experience in < related field>. I have started my job(career) with < company name> in the year and then joined < company name> in and presently I am with < company name> since .

The answer is crisp & short and not more than 2 minutes.
My answer for this question is :

“ I am Anand Mehra. I am a post graduated Bussiness management student of Punjab technical university in 2007. I have 8 Years of experience in Quality Management systems. I had started my career with Printers House (P) Limited, Faridabad in 2002 and then moved to Intex Technologies (India) Limited in Jan, 2007 and presently from June, 2009 – I am with RealTime Systems Limited, Delhi as a Dy.Manager-QA. "

Prepare yourself for this question……………… and suceed

What is JIT and TQM?

JIT is the acronym for “Just In Time “ and it follows a simple philosophy that – Keeping inventory is waste because it incurs the unnecessary cost. This concept was firstly deployed in Ford Motor by Henry Ford.

To summarize this concept, we can say that JIT is an inventory strategy which focuses to improve the ROI ( Return on Investment) by reducing the Inprocess inventory and its associated cost. This saves the cost of warehouse space and its related activities.

TQM : Total Quality Management is approach towards the management to integrate all the functions of a business house for the customer satisfaction and best output for the benefit of the organization.

It involves all the corners of the business house and synergize them to a common goal. TQM implementation is a big changeover in any company because it is a people oriented strategy and one is only benefited when the organization people are cultured, matured and ready to take the challenges. The information flow should be very transparent from top to bottom and bottom to top then the TQM can give the results and all people will work for a common goal – Customer satisfaction whether the customer is internal or external.