Job interview: Self introduction

🇯🇵 [こんにちは] is fine as a greeting, but in a job interview [本日はよろしくお願いします] or [よろしくお願いいたします] sounds more professional.

💬 When [今日] is followed by [は] in [今日は], the [は] is pronounced (wa), not (ha). In greetings like [今日はよろしくお願いします], the whole [今日は] often means more like "as for today" than just plain "today".

🇯🇵 [今日はよろしくお願いします] is a standard polite way to open a first meeting in Japan. In an interview, it often lands better than a simple [こんにちは] because it shows respect and readiness to work together.

💬 [よろしく] rarely means "well" by itself in real use; it usually appears in set phrases like [よろしくお願いします]. You can reuse it in many introductions: [今後ともよろしくお願いします] means something like "I look forward to working with you going forward."

💬 [お願いします] literally comes from "request," so it often means "please" when asking for something: [自己紹介をお願いします], [お名前をお願いします]. In [よろしくお願いします], it helps make the whole phrase polite rather than meaning a direct request on its own.

🇯🇵 This is one of the safest polite phrases for first meetings. In a job interview, a more formal version like [よろしくお願いいたします] can sound even better.

💬 [自己] means "self" and [紹介] means "introduction," so together [自己紹介] is "self-introduction." You'll see the same build-up in words like [自己分析] "self-analysis."

💬 Put [を] before [お願いします] when asking someone to do something: [自己紹介をお願いします], [説明をお願いします]. It's a very common polite pattern in workplaces and interviews.