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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
This can sometimes be a tricky question to answer. The interviewer is using your answer as a behavioral assessment. Rather than thinking of negatives versus positives, offer something neutral that will not negatively reflect on you.

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"I can be vivacious at times and happy-go-lucky and bold. I make eye contact a lot, but in the past, I've had friends assume that I'm some sort of "player" in my personal life. Quite frankly, I'm the opposite. Even though I can be fun and sometimes flirty, in the most appropriate manner, of course, I am quite terminally shy. Invite me to a party and you'll discover that I'm a wallflower. Invite me out for a drink, and I might accept because at the moment it sounds like fun, but I'll likely bow out last minute. I'd rather be at home quietly reading a good book with a cat on my lap."

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"I am super neat and tidy, and sometimes people interpret that as being uptight. But I consider myself to be a relaxed individual. I'm relaxed because I am a serial systems implementor. I believe in being organized. My systems help me with my efficiency, time management, and productivity. It's because of my systems that I am such a relaxed individual. I recognize I am unique and that my habit of ensuring everything is just so can come across as uptight. Truth be told, I see it as being habitually success-driven."

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