 Tell Me About Yourself is the first question you'll be asked in any interviews coming up, regardless of your interview for consultant, product management, software engineers, or business analyst. However, 99% of answers out there are very boring and not impressive. If you're not able to pass the first one interview, it's likely you didn't answer this question well. In this video, I'm going to share with you the proven live examples how you're able to transform your original answer of Tell Me About Yourself into something much more impressive that it's going to lend you a job offer much faster. And this is an example of me coaching someone live and transform how to answer this question. I want all of you guys to use the same kind of methodology to craft your Tell Me About Yourself answer. You guys, this is Dr. Nancy Lee, Director of Product and Featured in Forbes. I have helped hundreds of people lend a dream PM job offer in fan companies and unicorn startups. If you want to achieve the same kind of success, please go to PMExcelsure.io to learn more. If you want to learn the most effective way to become a product manager, please subscribe to channel and hit the bell button. So be notified every time I post a new video every Wednesday. Make sure to like this video and share this video with any job seekers out there. In my last video, which is also one of the most popular video on YouTube teaching you how to answer Tell Me About Yourself in 30 seconds. And over there, I share with you the framework that you will use to craft your 30 seconds elevated pitch. In this video, I am going to share with you how we apply the same strategy helps someone else to transform her answer. Please make sure to pay attention to the before and after answers, after we change the entire strategy of how she starts to tell her about herself. I also want to remind everybody to go to the link in the description to download my sample answers to Tell Me About Yourself in 30 seconds. You are able to use the exact the same script I use when my four-permanent jobs and three director offers was in 60 days. I've removed the personal identifiable information of this candidate, so all the information we share with you on YouTube live is good for everyone to learn together. So first of all, let's listen to her before and after answer. Here is before how she answered Tell Me About Yourself. So, hi everyone, my name is and I currently work at a bank. In the last couple of years, I have been helping the bank with modernizing their technology. One thing that I helped with is to launch an integration product in the cloud from scratch. And so I kind of got the experience to play as the entrepreneur in the team. So I participated in the entire development process from ideation, design, build, testing, go live and operations. So and on top of that, I also led a team of eight developers developing integrations that connects applications together. And one part of that onboarding included building integrations connecting two ERP systems together, which allowed our bank to decommission 18 systems and to reduce operational costs. So that all happened in wet life last July of 2021. So I'm kind of at a point where I'm trying to find new challenges and new opportunities and the change of environment. So here I am looking for a new opportunity with this company. Now, here's after we repackage everything with a new Tell Me About Yourself song slide. Hi, I am Vinnie and I have five years experience like launching, managing and developing technology product. In my latest experience, I helped the biggest Canadian bank to move their like existing operation into cloud. This is the very first time this largest bank in Canada was able to move their operation to the cloud. Through this process, I was a our team was able to help them to decommission 18 different kind of laxity systems, this leading to like 80% cost savings from room. Makes sense. You're parking the real number, but now it looks like this. I'm going to change it. So let me show you the step by step questions I asked her to transform her answer. So hi everyone. My name is and I currently work at a bank. In the last couple of years, I have been helping the bank with modernizing their technology. One thing that I helped with is to launch an integration product in the cloud from scratch. And so I kind of got the experience to play as the entrepreneur in the team. So I participated in the entire development process from ideation, design, build, testing, go live and operations. So and on top of that, I also led a team of eight developers on developing integrations that connects applications together. And one part of that onboarding included including included building integrations connecting to ERP systems together, which allowed our bank to decommission 18 systems and to reduce operational costs. So that all happened and went live last July 2021. So I'm kind of at a point where I'm trying to find new challenges and new opportunities and the change of environment. So here I am looking for a new opportunity with this company. Awesome. So the first time I heard her pitch, you feel like, well, this person has lots of experience. However, it's kind of long and not very impactful. And you kind of do not remember exactly what she did. You just feel like, oh, she's working a bank, did something. Now let me share with you how to make it more impressive by giving the punchline upfront showing how many years of experience you have in total related to paramilitary management. Pretty good. I like how it gets started. But it gets less memorable towards the end. Let me show you why. Okay. So your pitch, first of all, is too long because we want to make it shorter. Your pitch is mainly missing the impact. The differences between people who land amazing paramilitary job offer frequently, our students and our fan offers all the time. The reason was because once they get in, it's very impressive when they talk about their background and their pitch. So what you can do is start from the beginning. Let's say you should do a summary. Say, I have how many years experience related to product, right? So give me a number. Five. Okay. Awesome. So you should say I have five years experience in product management or is all your five years experience like with PM title or like consultant or other type of functions or business analyst? It started with project management. Okay. So give me all your titles. So then research and so I started with an engineer background and then I moved to project management and then now I'm a product manager. I see. So in that case, cool. Do you think all your five years of experience is related product or some part of it has nothing to do with product? Some part of it has nothing to do with product. Okay. Like which part of the research? The engineering part. Ah, you build a product, right? Yes. Okay. So that's that's their related to products. So the way the way we see this is you just need to rebundle it to make it why it's related to product. For example, you can say five, I have five years experience launching, managing and the developing technology product because when you're software engineer, you develop product, right? So that's really proud, but you're just more working on the engineering side of product. Lots of people made a mistake when you talk about related experience for management. They forgot that actually when you were engineers or other functions is relevant for management because when you were engineers probably know how to build MEP because once you become a manager, you've been working with engineering team to build MEP. So those experiences are very relevant because we know how to communicate and also know how the process works to develop product. So therefore put everything together in your end 20 years experience related to developing and launching technology product is very critical. So comment below what kind of experience you have related to product management and I can also share with you and let you know whether that's relevant to PM or not. So comment down below and let me know what's your background. So as long as you specify you're working developing a certain product plus management plus like launching the product together five years. So you should just say five years like launching managing and developing technology product, right? So now next part is you mentioned your current job like you did some kind of integration with your existing product suite, right? Yeah. So I launched an integration platform and then so that's the platform level and then on the application level we also have a team of developers that develop the integrations for B2B. Yeah. You just need to add the impact. I know everybody launched product but there's the differences between let's say three guys in a garage, launched a product then I work for Facebook or Meta. I'm launching the new whatever Metaverse or new thing. So it's differences between you launch a product. So what's the impact of the B2C product you just had? So she said a lot regarding what she did but she forgot to talk about the impact she made and in reality there are four ways to describe your impact could be revenue impact, cost saving and also customer satisfaction and improving the efficiency of the company and all of this can be mentioned as part of the impact instead of only telling what you did without impact that's useless. So I think the impact here is that it's the first time the bank being in the cloud so we like help with initiate like launching a lot of new processes. So and then the second thing is that as a result of these integrations developed on our platform we were able to modernize the technology at the bank and then decommissioned 18 systems. Awesome. Okay. Great. Very good. So she said lots of things but didn't say it very well. See how I change how she described her experience? Recently I launched a product that integrated the banking system to cloud which is the very first time that enabled my client ABCD Bank. I assume the bank is very famous right? ABCD Bank was or you can say the the biggest bank in Canada or the biggest bank in U.S. something describe how big the bank is. As I said the difference is from Facebook level or meta level than three guys in garage. You just say how big the bank is. The biggest commercial bank in Canada example right? And this is the very first time this biggest commercial bank in Canada was able to move their business operations into cloud and on top of that we have also you mentioned like you also launched some 18 different kind of features once you move it you upgrade the system for 18 different functions right? No. So it's decommission 18 systems. So retire 18 systems. Oh yeah and also through the process we also decommission 18 systems so that you need finish. Why you decommissioned? Because the faster saving money so that what finish the sentence for me? Better user experience and reduce operational cost of the 18 systems and then using newer technology. Actually she did a lots of great jobs. She's never say it in the interview. Can you see this? For example she was able to improve the efficiency, better user experience and all of this can be quantified that put into the impact that she has made through decommissioning 18 different kind of systems. Okay which also enable like mobile services. Too long. You just stated the most impressive part of decommissioning which is we also decommissioned 18 different kind of laxity systems which leading to 80% cost saving or a few billion dollars cost saving whatever numbers that you need to plug in the reality okay whatever the reality is lead to whatever percentage of cost saving or put the dollar sign if you want to whatever is feasible all right so that will make more impressive. For example now it sounds like this. Hi I am Vinnie and I am I have five years experience like launching, managing and developing technology product. My latest in my latest experience I helped the biggest Canadian bank to move their like existing operation into cloud. This is the very first time this largest bank in Canada was able to move their operation through the cloud. Through this process I was a our team was able to help them to decommission 18 different kind of laxity systems this leading to like 80% cost savings from the room makes sense you plug in the real number but now it looks like this it's much more impressive makes sense yeah okay so the second story was your second one the second one the first one actually is better the second one is really getting like went down so tell me what was the second one um so I the the two part that I talked about the first one was the launch of the platform so I participated like from the very start and and pushed it to to production and then the second part is the is to build the integrations on top of the platform um so I led hiring 18 yeah yeah so yeah so overall it's the very it's not really only product management it was a little bit of everything um so then I got to build like two teams one on the infrastructure team and then the the second team was on the application team okay so um so the first paragraph is we summarize your impact right so second part we can talk about your leadership experience for example I plug in some random numbers but you're putting the wrong the right number based on your real experience right you can say throughout this experience I was able to lead a team of how many people like two teams coming to um 10 each 10 each I was able to lead 20 other engineers um engineers um analysts um yeah yeah so I was able to lead a team of two teams of 20 engineers and analysts together to do what finish sentence uh to deliver the product and the the the integrations okay um to to provide the end to end transformation for our banking clients I think this sounds way better than what you had yes okay so at here we repackage how exactly she was able to talk about her leadership experience and also how she really said better the way I said it just sounds way better we're going to end to end like transformation for the client and we're also plugging important numbers such as a team of 20 cross functional teams the engineers and designers and together all of this demonstrates she's able to manage a very large scope project with the leadership potential that is able to qualify for her for at least a senior product management position thank you okay and then towards the end the call to action I'm looking for new challenges yeah but I wouldn't say whoa right now I don't see any challenges that's why I'm looking for a new job you know that that sounds very not confident I feel like you're getting fired just trying to cover up is I'm saying yeah so your pitch should be I'm looking forward to like for example making if my pitch will be because I'm very big on education let's say years later I don't want to be a director whatever okay so I would say I love to join a fast growing education technology company to bring education available to underserved communities and teach them entrepreneurship right so that's a specific call to action what to go what you want to be instead of oh happy in the fly is kind of boring no challenges that's why I'm talking to you you know no just say what or you that's a very funny way culture others you feel the same way give a thumb up and give a like to this video just say what or you whatever the new mission you want to achieve that's your call to action you don't need to give them like explanation why I'm leaving my company that's a one of an interview question but not part of your 30 seconds out of it a pitch okay got it so therefore your call to action towards the end should be very mission driven showing that you're looking for like new challenges what you like a vision of yourself in the future it could be looking for something and to implement an experience join a bcd industry and making some kind of impact so mission driven statement is going to help you to be perceived as a product leader instead of describing I don't like my current job or hinting don't take a current job right so reshape your focus a mindset of describing who you are is going to help you to go very far in your any interviews coming up okay just any anything really to you never copy mine because they can tell you guys my answers okay put in your own words but something more impactful regarding the the mission you want to achieve make sense okay yeah awesome okay great thank you thank you any other questions if you want to crack your answer to tell me about yourself to much more concise way um you can follow the same exact strategy you're able to download the exact script I use to answer the question tell me about yourself within 30 seconds that help me to learn three direct or correct offers and you can go to the link in the description to download my exact script and crack yours as well you can also have me to review your 30 seconds elevator pitch for free through my weekly youtube live you're able to see the link in the description and filling a google form to submit your request to be called for me for 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