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What are your greatest strengths? Weaknesses?
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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.
How you answer this question will give the interviewer insight into your self-awareness and how you identify your merits and growth opportunities. It's also a constant challenge for the interviewer to find out whether you're being forthright, or doing your best to tell them what they think they want to hear. This tests your honesty by evaluating the consistency of your answers. Your consistency serves to reveal how consistent you'll perform in your work.
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.
Align your strengths with what they're perceivably looking for and offer how they'll help you in this role. Frame your greatest weakness as an asset in its own right. Being a perfectionist can be a weakness.
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'd say my greatest strength is also my greatest weakness. I push myself to the limit and am my own worst critic as a result of it. I rarely need to be disciplined because I am harder on myself than anyone else could be. So even though I am a perfectionist and put my all in, sometimes I can push myself too hard. It's like Nietzsche said, be careful in casting out your demons, for you may be casting out that which is greatest within you."
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