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Cake day: December 18th, 2023

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  • I work in a job where I have to introduce myself quite a lot. For a longer introduction like you would in an interview, I do the following:

    • General statement about my career, one liner

    • the professional topics I’m most interested, 3 or 4 bullet points

    • a brief walk through my resume: what I studied (one liner) and where I worked, no longer than 1 minute total

    • what am I doing currently, responsibilities, likes and dislikes, no more than a minute, they’ll ask you more about it later

    • some personal details: family, kids, hobbies, favorite {teams, sports, countries, movies, whatever} keep it to 20-30 seconds

    Total under 3 minutes


    For a shorter one, like in a 1h zoom call:

    • name, position (and description of the position if unusual), tenure.

    • any relationship to the people in the call (I’m a customer of yours, my first car was from you, I would love to buy gizmo some day, etc)

    • background info: previous jobs or studies if relevant (oh, i used to work in industry in college, etc)

    • one hobby if relevant, or if it is in your background (movies, books, sports, photography, whatever)

    Total 15 to 30 seconds.