Job interviews – strengths, weaknesses

During an interview process for employment, many interviewers will ask what your strengths and weaknesses are.

When you are asked about your strengths you will not want to sound like you are too full of yourself. Of course you must let him/her know what strengths you can bring to their company so just be honest and give him/her a few of your good traits. Some examples of these may be that you are hardworking, dedicated, committed, self motivated, determined, successful, goal orientated, intelligent, self confident, pocess leadership skills, and are team player. Just pick a couple of these examples and elaborate on them to the interviewer.

Answering the weakness part of the strength/weakness question seems to be a bit more challenging for people to answer. People do not really want to point out their weaknesses to the interviewer because they are there to impress the interviewer and not the opposite. People also worry that if they say that they have no weaknesses that the interviewer will see them as arrogant and cocky. You must give an answer to the question though if it is asked and what you will want to do is throw out weaknesses that can be converted into strengths. The answers that you should give to this question will sometimes depend on the type of job you are interviewing for. For example you might want to tell an interviewer that one of your weaknesses is that you get to nervous around people but have been working on it and plan to conquer it. This answer may not be good though if the job you are going for is a job with constant and continuos contact with people. Another answer that you might want to consider is that you are a constant debater, again use of this answer will depend on the kind of job your are going for. If you lack some skills let the interviewer know about it, there is no person that has all the skills in the world for everything and the interviewer will appreciate your honesty.