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Discussion on: What do you include in your personal narrative?

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Johannes Scharlach

When I interview people, I like to be more specific than that. All my social skill tells me that that's a terrible ice breaker, so why would it be any better in interviews than at a party? The question I tend to ask therefore is: What have you been doing recently and can you give me some examples of that?

Similarly with the open ended question I tend to just start off in reverse chronological order what I've done. Starting out with the biggest current thing I'm working on and then gradually working myself backwards. After 3 or 4 sentences it's also ok to ask more info about the job description so that you can better tell examples of how you've been doing something similar in the past.