How you perceive yourself may differ from how others perceive you, including the person interviewing you. Remain conscious of your body language throughout the interview process. Make sure your answers remain consistent with how you present yourself. Regarding the features your colleagues consider valuable in you, stick to tangible comments or observations they've made of you. Regarding your personal strengths, provide those you feel make you an excellent candidate. Try to align your self-perceived strengths with the merits they're looking for in a viable candidate based on the information at your disposal. Strengths can be skills or qualities that allow you to follow through and overcome difficult circumstances or accomplish challenging tasks. Talk to the interviewer about your strengths and why those will help you to be successful in this role.

"As far as my colleagues, they've said to me, and my supervisors, and I know because it ended up in my reviews, that my work ethic is so strong, I often set the pace at work. My contagious positive attitude has had a tremendous impact at work as well. They've also said I am a natural-born leader. I'd say three of my strengths are my systems for getting the job done, error-free, and way ahead of deadlines with consistency. Always staying productive, always finding more work to do when I'm ahead of the game. And, stepping outside my comfort zone to do whatever it takes to help the team."