Financial Analyst Mock Interview
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What are your strengths and 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.
Discussing your strengths and weaknesses with confidence while taking ownership of those areas you'd like to improve upon suggests emotional intelligence, determination, and taking ownership of your own development. As financial influencer, Tonya Rapley says, "Focus on your most immediate goal and what you need to accomplish that. Start with that one thing you feel is preventing you from going to your next level." By detailing where you are struggling, and the goals you set for yourself to achieve next, you'll help them determine where they can help you grow and improve upon your skills. By detailing your strengths, you can help them evaluate where you could be of most within their organization, and how they can mentor you to capitalize on your strengths to drive your success forward.
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 would say that my strength comes with how persuasive I can be. A great deal of why I am so successfully persuasive is my sincerity and intentions. But at the same time, when I feel a client lacks the confidence to move forward, that's where my weakness of coming across as too pushy comes into play. It's my intention, wanting to do good by my clients, where I have failed in the past to be more nurturing and empathetic instead of pushy and overly confident. But, I am aware of this tendency. I have become very practiced in being more nurturing and patient, but I still feel the urge to regress, so it hasn't become second nature yet, but I am working on that."
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