Craft your 'tell me about yourself' answer

Build a focused 60-90 second self-introduction for interviews and networking, in a present-past-future structure.

Change note: Initial version

Prompt

Help me craft my answer to "Tell me about yourself" for an interview.

Role I am interviewing for: {{role}}
Company or type of company: {{company}}
My background:
{{background}}
Standout achievement to include: {{achievement}}
What I want next and why this role: {{why_role}}
Spoken length: {{duration}}

Write the answer using a present, past, future structure:
- Present: what I do now and one strength, in a single sentence.
- Past: two or three career moments that explain how I got here and build toward this role. Cut anything irrelevant.
- Future: why this role and company are the logical next step.

Rules: spoken language, short sentences, no chronological recital of my whole resume, no personal details unless relevant. Use only facts I provided.

Give me: (1) the full script, (2) a version at half the length for networking events, (3) three variations of the first sentence, (4) notes on where to pause and which words to emphasize, and (5) two follow-up questions an interviewer might ask next, with advice for each.

Variables

• {{role}}Roletext

  Default: UX researcher

• {{company}}Companytext

  Default: a healthcare software company

• {{background}}Backgroundlong

  Default: Psychology degree, four years as a market researcher, two years running usability tests at a fintech startup.

• {{achievement}}Standout achievementtext

  Default: redesigned onboarding after interviews with 30 users, which raised completion by 18%

• {{why_role}}Why this roletext

  Default: I want my research to affect patient-facing products

• {{duration}}Lengthselect

  Options: 45 seconds, 75 seconds, 90 seconds

  Default: 75 seconds

Example output

**Full script (about 75 seconds)**
"I'm a UX researcher who helps product teams understand why people struggle and what to fix first. At my current startup I run usability studies on a banking app; last year I interviewed 30 users about onboarding, and the redesign that followed raised completion by 18%.

I started in psychology and spent four years in market research, which taught me to ask neutral questions and handle messy data. Moving into UX let me see research turn into actual product changes.

Now I want that work to matter in healthcare, where clear design affects whether someone completes a task that matters to their wellbeing. That's why this role excites me."

**Networking version**
"I'm a UX researcher with a background in psychology and market research, now looking to bring that into healthcare software."

**First-sentence variations**
1. "I help teams figure out why users get stuck."
2. "I'm a researcher who likes turning interviews into design decisions."

**Delivery**: pause after the 18% result; emphasize "affect".

Notes

Giving a past that builds toward the target role stops the answer from becoming a résumé recital. Read it aloud and trim any sentence you stumble over.