Walk Me Through Your Resume: Best Way to Respond

Walk Me Through Your Resume: Best Way to Respond

Join career expert and award-winning author Andrew LaCivita as he discusses walk me through your resume: best way to respond!

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Sad for them, but you should be doing back flips!

It is probably one of the dumbest ways for a job interviewer to open up the interview, but it is one of the best things that could possibly happen to you.

Do’s, Don’ts, Always, and Never-Evers…

Before we get into the “here's how,” some do's and don'ts.

1] Look at the job description and determine what areas or activities or accomplishments in your resume most closely align and best suit you to do that role effectively.

2] The second “do” is make sure you bring a copy of your resume to the job interview.

3] You also want to make sure before you start you know what direction to go. Ask them.

4] Don’t read them what's on the resume. Don't look at your resume and start reading. You'll be very dry.

5] Don't [just] talk about the activities you have on the resume.

Here’s how to roll…

For less relevant areas, go quickly.

For home run areas, take your time, provide context, and so on. (Check the Career Achievements Journal for the exact content and info.)

I know what you’re thinking…

You might be thinking, “Andy, I could go on for an hour talking about myself, my resume.”

GOOD!

There's ways after you hit each major area in your resume, just take a pause, look over to the interviewer and just say, "Is that enough there? Did you have anymore questions about that? Did you want to discuss that any further? How am I doing? Should I go onto the next point?" Just do what you need to do to give yourself a quick break.

You get to tell them what you want to tell them, not what they want to ask you. That's the wonderful thing about getting asked that question early in the interview.

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ABOUT ANDREW
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Andrew LaCivita is an internationally recognized executive recruiter, award-winning author, trainer, and founder and chief executive officer of milewalk and the milewalk Academy. He’s dedicated his career to helping people and companies realize their potential, consulting to more than two hundred organizations and counseling more than eleven thousand individuals. He often serves as a trusted media resource and is the award-winning author of Interview Intervention, Out of Reach but in Sight, and The Hiring Prophecies.

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ABOUT TIPS FOR WORK AND LIFE®
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Tips for Work and Life® is a weekly careers, hiring, and motivational show full of helpful job search strategies, career management and acceleration tactics, recruitment techniques, and self-help aids with the award-winning author, career coach, and trainer Andrew LaCivita. Tips for Work and Life® has been cited by several sources as a Top 5 Careers and HR Blog. Andrew includes these 5-15 minute multicast shows as part of his blog and podcast.

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I'm happy to share other people's work on the tell me about yourself question. This is not an endorsement of their techniques, but simply alternate viewpoints.

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[andylacivita]

Hey Everyone, this video is now open for business! Let me know any job interview or job search challenges you're having. I'm happy to help!

[Nepenhyah]

The question demonstrates the lack of skills, attention, and level or care of the interviewer. As a hiring manager I make sure to observe the candidate’s resume before the interview and craft specific questions tailored to their qualifications. I also make sure to break the ice and get to know the individual before diving right in. This creates a professional experience, and decreases nervousness. It demonstrates to the candidate that I value their time and value them as a human. The main goal here, is that even if I can’t extend an offer, I provide a great experience and preserve the reputation of the firm. All too often, companies take great candidates for granted, only filling in current openings. One must realize that the individual will obtain more experience and still has a lot of value, or may even be a great fit in case the new hire doesn’t work out. There’s also other roles this person can add value too in the future. Lazy interviewing is unacceptable.

[youngl]

Watched this in October 2024 and as a guy with 20 years of experience and NO clue on how to walk thru a resume this information is great!

[GuitarsAndSynths]

Everytime I fall down and fail on job interviews, I return to Andy's tips and feel encouraged even in past defeats.

[michaelanorwood]

I recently graduated and am looking for my first job in my degree field. Your videos have helped me feel so much more confident in the job hunting process and less nervous about going into interviews. Thanks for all the helpful content!

[iamthegame]

When I'm asked this question in an interview the first thing that comes to mind is that the interviewer clearly hasn't bothered to read it before inviting me for interview so if they're truly that "lazy" it sends out a VERY strong message to me that I don't want to work for this organisation....

[shwetasrikanth]

Brilliant technique! I used it and it was very very effective. Thank you!

[khoitran]

Hi, I got these 4 questions from a Japanese recruiter, they really made me confused. If you have any ideas about them, could you please tell me about their meaning and how to answer them effectively?

1. Please teache me about your ideal society on your background.
2. How is your ideal form connected to your ideal society?
3. How do you want to use the training to bring your current self closer to your ideal self?
4. How do you understand the difference between your ideal self and your current self?

Thank you very much for your help. Your videos are awesome by the way :) Got the interview by applying some of your methods.

[stephanielott]

Connecting the dots "once again" to present with confidence in communications!! Thanks Andy!

[e.j.f]

Thanks Andy, this is really relevant as I have been asked this several times. Also, thanks for the "reset" in saying that when they ask such a question - it is a GOOD thing. Also, thanks for having a written summary of the video as it helps to have notes for review.

[danpaterno]

Such a great way to look at walking someone through your resume! Makes so much sense!

[ronl.]

Great advice Andrew. I've had two interviews so far and both asked me to do this. I had no idea to think of it as an opportunity to take over my own interview. Thanks!

[vkuri]

Hi Andrew, this video is just excellent and a lot of very crucial info. I regret seeing it late. But hopefully I'll let you know of positive output once I get selected. Thanks for the wonderful video again.

[venkatajagannadhaswamy]

Superb Andrew!
Irrespective of level of experience or the domain we are into, the Insights you have provided will give the confidence and successfully complete the interview.
Thank you very much for such a wonderful video

[davida]

what if I don't have much accomplishments? Or what if there's no way to actually quantify my results? Usually this is the reason I turn to the activities....

[Myrihe]

I wish I had seen this video before my interview. Walk me through your interview. I thought they were going to highlight what section I had to talk about. I didn’t know where to start so I just went through my first and longest dealing with different people. Then I skipped a few jobs and went into my current job... I wish I highlighted more.

[tiphotisted]

Jesus that's a lot of positivity in this video for so much you'd have to go through and explain one thing after another.

[yumyes]

Tysm, I did get job after watching your videos

[SuperLivelife]

Hey Andy! Thanks for another great video! As I was listening, I thought back to the video on Tell Me About Yourself and the 3 techniques you gave. #2. Would it be wise to also have a copy of the job description for leverage?

[dylanstewart]

HEY ANDY,
CAN YOU PLEASE DO A VIDEO AND GIVE A BREAKDOWN ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK OF INFOGRAPHIC RESUMES