3 Steps to Optimizing Your Personal Narrative

Here’s how to respond when a job interviewer asks, ‘Tell me about yourself’

Laura Vanderkam
Forge
Published in
3 min readOct 2, 2020

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Illustration: Abbey Lossing

The human brain loves stories. Think about interviewing job candidates; we’re much more likely to remember the candidate for that head of strategy job who recounted checking her town calendar as a kid in order to open her lemonade stand next to big events (and…

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Laura Vanderkam
Forge
Writer for

Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management books including Off the Clock and 168 Hours. She blogs at LauraVanderkam.com.