How to Answer: What are your greatest strengths, and how will they be a fit for our company?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for a Boeing job interview.
5. What are your greatest strengths, and how will they be a fit for our company?
Why the Interviewer Asks This Question
This is another question directly aimed at determining whether you have put in the work to identify yourself as a good fit for their company. How you answer will offer clues to your self-awareness and your emotional intelligence. When preparing for your interview, spend just as much time researching yourself as you do Boeing. Identify the keywords and phrases they used to describe their ideal talent. They use words like analytical, strategic, problem-solver, results-driven, experience, technologically savvy, and logical. "We value leadership, integrity and skills. Build your future as part of our team." Use similar professional adjectives to describe yourself and your circumstances, such as career-driven, ambitious, persistent, authentic, patient, enthusiastic, disciplined, and passionate.
Written by Samantha Brown on November 28th, 2023
What You Need to Know
Boeing's recruiter will later review the recorded interviews, often watching several comparable candidates side by side. How heavily they rely upon the information provided in the candidate's insights reports is totally up to the recruiter. The only thing you have control over is how you present yourself, being prepared for what to expect in your HireVue interview. Your goal is to showcase yourself as a confident and experienced professional. In the end, the hiring manager's opinion is the only one that matters.
Written by Kevin Downey on November 16th, 2023
How to Prep
Before your interview, practice delivering your answers in front of your computer's camera. The camera angle should be at eye level. Positioning it too low will make you come across as domineering. Too high and you'll seem too weak or small. Pick the right distance. Don't position yourself too far or too close to the camera. Maintain eye contact in front of the camera as if you're speaking face-to-face with a person.
Grow aware of your non-verbal cues and what they communicate. Be mindful of your facial expressions as the software will monitor your facial expressions. Furrowing your brow while concentrating on how to answer a question can easily be misinterpreted as exhibiting anger and raise a red flag. Some other nonverbal cues the assessment vendor will scan your video interview for are your posture, such as slouching, folding your arms, or protecting your neck, eye movements, head movements, and hand movements. It will also scan tone for your vocal cues, such as placing stress or emphasis on certain words, stutters, or taking long pauses. So check your volume and don't talk too loudly or too softly into the microphone.
Written by Samantha Brown on November 28th, 2023
Answer Example
"I would say that one of my strengths is my approach to generating creative solutions to problems. I am swift in solving problems and coming up with outside-of-the-box solutions. I consider my attitude one of my strengths. To me, nothing is impossible and where there is a will, there is a way. I'd also say I have a level head, and maintain my calm even in the most severe storms. I could come up with more, but I will stop with those, as those are the most common observations my teammates have made about me, and I wholeheartedly agree with them."
Written by Samantha Brown on November 28th, 2023