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.

Motivation is not enough to drive the quality culture of work …………..

People are the best assets of any organization and when these living assets attach themselves with the company’s goals , there is a definite chance that company will grow in many folds.

People are getting motivated by many means but motivation has its limitations. Any organization who are really keen to retain the best talent in their organization, they have to develop a culture of Inspiration.

When you tell to any employee that you are paying for your job , it force him/her to do only a job but when you say to your employee that you are paying for a job which is actually a contribution of yourself towards society then he /she gets inspired.

I don’t say that we are making a good product rather I say to my team members that We are making a world class product and when we see this product anywhere we have to be proud that we made this product.

This drives the quality culture in company and everybody from top to bottom starts their work in a different approach.
My mantra is :
1) Employees are the best assets of any company , retain them.
2) Inspired them to their job.
3) Set your own example being a leader and guide them.

The decade 2010-2020 will be of fast mobile communication ……………..

The information is on your hands everywhere. You need any information of any type you will get through your mobile phones. The coming decade will be dominated by the fast processing of information and we will witness some amazing developments in this.

Companies are now shifting to traditional communication of email to mobile communication because of the huge mass of mobile users all across the globe. 3 G is only the beginning of the revolution.

This small equipment will play a vital role for the human kind and fulfill the thirst of all to get the fast information whenever and wherever he desired. Be the part of the changes in mobile communication.

The epic saga of Mahabharata earlier it is known as “Jay Sanhita” is the best management book.

Mahabharata is the best lesson for management. Every Manager has to read it……..
Mahabharta is not just a saga, through reading of this saga can give you many lessons of management , tactics and strategy.

There are numbers of events in this saga, where strategy , tactics were used effectively and above all , the best management guru ( in my opinion) Lord Krishna is there whose decision making strategy and foresighting can guide any entrepreneur to make his/her business successful.

Now , I am starting a series of articles from where we can learn the fundamentals of management who is actually the right combination of POLC ( Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling).

Keep reading……………….