Tell me about yourself - One of worst Interview questions

Why is this Bad? It's a loaded question, and oftentimes the responder goes off on a tangent about aspects about themselves that are unrelated to the true point of your question. The responder typically doesn't know how to respond and may very easily venture off into providing answers that truly can lead to other illegal questions (Well, I'm a 32 year old female, I enjoy spending time with my 2 kids...". Sure career coaches would say to the responder that you shouldn't venture beyond your professional self, but not everyone knows this is the direction of the question, just too broad.

A better interview question: "Tell me about some of your major accomplishments in your professional career?" or "What are some things in your professional career that you are most proud off?"

It sets the tone that you aren't going to venture into "illegal" land and because it is open-ended yet specific to your professional career, you're able to start a conversation from there.

From: Katrina M Harrel, CEO of Your Simple Bookkeeper, an Virtual Accounting Services company focused on Micro Business Education
Source: http://ask.inc.com/besides-anything-that-could-be-seen-as-discriminatory-what-are-some-bad-job-interview-questions#answer-f866ab187771e7855ff311befe16396e9aa9aa6d8868b82c22b695e2827dde39