Tell me about yourself in about one minute.

This question often opens an interview, and the person asking doesn't need to hear your whole resume again. They want to see what you choose to talk about in one minute, and whether you can say it clearly. A good answer usually has four parts, one or two sentences each:

1. Who you are and what you do: "I'm a recently graduated frontend developer, working mainly with React and TypeScript."
2. One concrete piece of evidence: a project, with its hardest part and the result. For example: "I built an app that records spending from text messages. The hard part was reading amounts the way people in Vietnam write them, like 35k or 1tr2 (1.2 million). I solved it with a table of examples where every row is a test. The app has 21 tests and a few classmates use it every day."
3. What you're learning or want to get better at, stated specifically: "I'm learning to write tests for React components."
4. Why you're here: connect it to the role, for example the company uses React and TypeScript, or its product has a lot of mobile users.

Things to avoid:

• Reading out your resume in chronological order, starting from high school.
• Adjectives nobody can check, like "dynamic, eager to learn, works well under pressure".
• Mentioning a project you can't answer the next question about, because interviewers often dig straight into the project you just brought up.

Prepare beforehand: write it down, then practise saying it out loud a few times with a timer to keep it to about a minute. Keep it consistent with your LinkedIn headline and About section, because the interviewer may have just read them.