Nail "Tell Me About Yourself" Every Time -- Use the FIT Model

Career Level: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services and university relations and recruiting professionals
Competency: Counseling
Fee: $69 (member); $89 (nonmember);

Summary
"Tell me about yourself" (TMAY) is the single-most common question job seekers (and non-job seekers alike!) face in their networking, interviewing, and relationship-building efforts. Although job seekers can use PAR/CAR/STAR approaches for behavioral interview questions, there has been no similar framework guiding job seekers to predictably and consistently answer this ubiquitous question in a likable way without having to memorize a script. In this session, The 2-Hour Job Search author Steve Dalton will introduce attendees to the FIT Model, which helps anyone answer TMAY effectively and authentically every time. Never feel uncertain about how to answer TMAY again (including at NACE)!

Following this program, you will be able to:
- Understand the research-based reasons why answering "Tell Me About Yourself" (TMAY) well is so critical to any professional's (especially any interviewee's) success;
- Explain why the FIT Model is an effective method for answering TMAY in both group networking- and interview-based scenarios; and
- Use FIT to answer TMAY (in both group networking and interview settings) in an authentic, likable, and memorable fashion with minimal effort and preparation.
Presenters

Stephen Dalton, Program Director of Daytime MBA Career Services, Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
In addition to his 17 years of higher ed experience with Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Steve Dalton is the author of two books and founder and CEO of corporate training firm Contact2Colleague. He holds an M.B.A. from Duke and a chemical engineering degree from Case Western. Prior to entering career services , Dalton was a strategy consultant at A.T. Kearney and an associate marketing manager at General Mills. In 2012, Penguin Random House published Dalton’s debut book, The 2-Hour Job Search. Fully revised in 2020, its concepts are now taught at more than 100 universities worldwide. Dalton's follow-up book, The Job Closer, was published in 2021.