[egtlover74]

What would be the difference between "How would you describe yourself?" and "What would you describe yourself?" when asked on job interview.

[jmftexas]

Originally Posted by egtlover74

What would be the difference between "How would you describe yourself?" and "What would you describe yourself?" when asked on job interview.

I would attempt to answer your question but I didn’t finish reading it because I can't stop staring at your avatar.

[shimshimhada]

First one is traits, the latter is telling them to go back to grammar school because it makes no sense.

[SE3P_to_E90]

Here's my 2 cents:

How would you describe yourself: you can actually kill two birds with one stone here... you can say you're a perfectionist (which is a bad thing) but given that you won't be pompous or cocky -- and it shows that you're a hard worker and that you like to take care of the nitpicky details... etc etc

What would you describe yourself: Here's your chance to freebase and show off without going over the edge...

it's served me well for job interviews with merrill lynch...

hope this "helps."

[shimshimhada]

Did they mean What would you describe yourself AS?

[dmfitz82]

^^ the later doesn't make grammatical sense

[KL2DC]

Following Shim's direction...examples of the former (how) would be "industrious, dedicated, diligent etc" and examples of the latter (what) would be "an industrious person, a dedicated person, a diligent person etc".

Did that hit the nail on the head?

[txusa03]

man I hate job interview...

[ward]

if they ask you the second one, run away

it's no fun to work for morons

[NFS]

Originally Posted by egtlover74

What would be the difference between "How would you describe yourself?" and "What would you describe yourself?" when asked on job interview.

"How would you describe yourself" - invites you to apply your own description from scratch

"What would you describe yourself as" - invites you to classify yourself within established forms

"What would you describe yourself" - makes no f*ckin sense