What are your strengths and weaknesses?
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humor\nhonest to a fault\ngullable\nusing my tongue as a sword\nencourager
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Assessing Your Strengths\n\nAssess your skills, and you will identify your strengths. This is an exercise worth doing before any interview. Make a list of your skills, dividing them into three categories:\n\n    1. Knowledge-based skills: Acquired from education and experience (e.g., computer skills, languages, degrees, training and technical ability).\n\n    2. Transferable skills: Your portable skills that you take from job to job (e.g., communication and people skills, analytical problem solving and planning skills).\n\n    3. Personal traits: Your unique qualities (e.g., dependable, flexible, friendly, hard working, expressive, formal, punctual and being a team player).\n\nWhen you complete this list, choose three to five of those strengths that match what the employer is seeking in the job posting. Make sure you can give specific examples to demonstrate why you say that is your strength if probed further. \n\nWhat Are Your Strong Points?\n\nIdentifying your five strengths and matching them to the job is an important step in preparing for your interview. Read through the description and identify the key factors needed to do the job. Be sure to read between the lines. For example:\n\n    Will interact with accounting, engineering and manufacturing departments.\n\nWhat will it take to perform this task? What kind of person is this company looking for?\n\nIt will require good communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with a diverse group of people and levels. If these are your areas of strength, focus on letting the interviewer know that you have the ability and experience to interface well with many different groups.\n\nLike the speechwriter, you want your audience to remember the important points you have made. By concentrating on a handful of strengths, you will find that you are more focused and succinct about telling what you have to offer. More importantly, the folks you meet are more likely to remember you for your strengths.
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belief in yourself\nthick skin\nyour ability to adapt
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You have to understand or think about why the interviewer is asking you that question in the first place? IMO it to see how self aware you are, do you really know what your weakness are? as well as your strong points. \n\nAnother reason you might be asked this question in a job interview is too see if your weakness's leave you at a sever disadvantage in carrying (performing) that specific role? After all you wouldn't have much success at being an airline pilot if your weakness was a lack of spacial awareness for example! or a bank clerk who wasnt any good at communicating with customers face to face (OK an extreme example but you get my point I'm sure).\n\n**Its to see how well rounded, how experienced you are as a person and how well equiped you are for the job on offer.\n\nIvan
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Not too bad, my greatest strength is my weakness and my greatest weakness is my strength.
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Identify your weakness first & then work on strengthening them.
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Well, they're probably going to ask you how you've handled a difficult customer situation in the past, to which you tell them something along the lines of keeping your temper and treating the customer like a person and not like a nuisance.  Then they'll ask you your strengths, which you can answer with whatever strengths you may have, and of course they'll ask you your weaknesses after that, which you'll answer with whatever weaknesses you may have, but never say something like, "I have a short temper" or "I'm always late"...answers like that put up huge red flags.  Just be honest with them and always remember to look them in the eye.  It shows confidence, even if you're completely nervous inside.  Good luck!
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Many people have given good answers, but remember this: Turn around the question during the interview.  "My weakness has been having a hard time setting a problem aside because I do not like to lose."\n\nMake your weakness something the employer would consider a strength.
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One of the more tricky ones is "Tell me some of your weaknesses."\nSome folks tend to ramble on and reveal too much that shoots them down.  The best way is to turn this into a strength.  For example...\n"I guess my biggest area that I need to improve on is my drive to succeed.  I am very hard on myself when I don't live up to my own high expectations and I just need to understand that I'm not always going to be able to hit a homerun."\n\nYou turn what might be a weakness into a strength showing your drive to succeed in this example that an interviewer might like to note as a positive thing to have.\n\nHope that helps.
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What are your strengths/weaknesses?  How would you handle a certain situation?  What did/do you think about your current/past manager?
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only you can answer that one.\n\nDepends on your weaknesses and strengths.
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State your strength and if possible try to give examples related to job functions you had to reinforce it.  For example, "I deal well under pressure.  In my current job I am constantly given last minute projects and request with deadlines that must be met within a few hours/days."
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Good question!  I was pondering good answers for these questions just last week.  As far as strengths, you want the interviewer to understand your confidence levels without giving the impression you are being cocky.  Good statements are: being a team player, a quick and eager learner, loyal etc...\n\nWeaknesses, which I think alot of people struggle with answering can be: waiting to the last moment to complete tasks, or not having the verbal advantage you desire.  Remember the interviewer wants you to humanize yourself.
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An example of the best way to handle this question: "I tend to be a bit disorganized, so I compensate by keeping a priority list of everything I need to do and don't allow myself to ignore it." Any time you admit to a weakness, make sure you explain how you've overcome or compensated for it. ( I was a Personnel Manager for two very large corporations and conducted literally thousands of interviews. )
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"I find that my greatest strength can also be by greatest weakness - and that's my desire for perfection. I want things done, I want them done right, and I want them done right RIGHT NOW. While I realize that there's no inherent danger in striving towards perfection, my drive can often lead to me getting impatient with myself. When I'm ready to go, I'm ready and I tend to push myself maybe harder than I should in order to get it right."\n\nGood luck in your interview!
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Either you say a weakness that is also a strength something like: I am a perfectionist etc.\nOr a genuine weakness that you had in the past that you addressed and improved something like computer skills addressed by going to appropriate courses etc\nGood luck
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Better for whom and for which purpose?  They each have their strengths and weaknesses