Stop reciting your resume and start acting like a $200/hour consultant. If you’re getting rejected at the first interview stage, I have some news that might sting: it’s probably not because of your skills. It’s because your self-introduction is boring. I know this because I’ve been there. Back when I was 24, I went through a brutal streak of 15 consecutive rejections. I was devastated. I convinced myself that my background wasn't "prestigious" enough or that my experience was too thin. I thought I was the problem. But I was wrong. The problem wasn't my history; it was how I presented it. Most people treat the self-introduction as a verbal summary of their LinkedIn profile. They drone on about their titles, their duties, and their years of service. But here is the cold, hard truth: Interviewers don’t care about your life story. They care about whether you can solve their problems. Once I realized this, my pass rate didn't just improve—it skyrocketed.…