Interview Tips: How to answer What are your Strengths?

we've already talked about weaknesses you can get a card to that right here if you want to leave this video immediately but today we are going to talk about the opposite end that interview question what are your strengths so I still see this question Aston interviews a lot I've actually asked it in interviews and I will say shockingly it's one that I see answered really poorly most of the time so today we're going to talk about the right way to answer this question so that you get that next job I'm Cassandra and I help motivated professionals build their careers through practical tips to gain confidence let's get started here's the mistake I see made a lot with this question as I said in the intro I use this one all the time especially with college students and I will ask what's your strength and they will tend to just list off for me a bunch of a bunch of words a bunch of strengths so what's your strength oh you know I'm really organized and I have like really good time management skills and I think yeah I'm a leader okay cool like can can you expand upon any of those things you can't just say that right you have to demonstrate it for me it's similar to why we can't put soft skills on the skills section of a resume if you said what's your strength and I just said oh I'm hilarious you'd be like you can't just say you're hilarious like you gotta tell jokes and stuff so I can decide you're hilarious but yet people all the time think they can just say well communication and we're gonna believe it so here that's what not to do let's talk about what to do so the overall best way to do this is to name the strengths give an example of how you're doing it in your current position how you've used it before and how you will use it in the future in this job so first you're naming the strengths and you really want to think about this ahead of time right just like everything else we prepare so look at that job description and see what are the strengths that you have based on that job description jot down one or two now think of an example of how you've done that thing in your current position or if we're not currently working how are you doing that in your life at this moment or in a volunteer position anywhere where there's a great example think of that then try and think of another place to use that maybe you used it in a different way so let's go with communication let's say in your current role you have to do a lot of presentations so you're gonna talk about your communication skills and how you use that in giving information to large groups but before this I worked in a job where I worked one-on-one with people and so I really worked on my interpersonal communication skills there so you're gonna give how you're currently using it and then how you used it in the past even if it's the same way talk about how you used it before just to strengthen the strength so you're gonna strengthen the effect of that skill so not only have I communicated in this position but I've been doing this for years because I also did it in this other position and then the clincher you're gonna say how you will use it in this new position so currently I use my strengths this way before that I was in this other position where I used it in this other way and the beauty of it is I see it really working for this position in this way okay because you're looking at that job description you can see the types of things you need to be doing and so you can talk about it one more time and say this is how I would do it here y'all if you do this this is an awesome interview answer now if you want to do it fast and you think there's two things you can highlight you can do two but please no more than two strengths and I will say if they say what is your greatest strength one we give one and we give really strong examples for that one make sure you're listening to their question think through how you want to answer it and answer accordingly don't give three if they ask for one but give one or two depending on how they ask with really strong examples of a currently before and future ok so that is it for this video now if you're still like oh I need to work on that weaknesses one you can find that video right here and if you just want the top 5 most commonly asked questions and how to answer them you can find that video right here and if you want more help I have a full interview prep checklist down in the description box below so go check that out subscribe if you haven't already hit the notification bellow so you know when new videos come out and I will see you in the next one bye

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Length: 5min 15sec (315 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 17 2019