You’re in a job interview and they ask about your strengths. What’s the best way to answer?

Understanding the role you're applying for and the specific skills and qualities required is crucial when discussing your strengths in a job interview. Tailoring your response to highlight the strengths that are most relevant to the position demonstrates your understanding of the job requirements and your ability to meet them effectively. Sample: "I excel in communication and collaboration, particularly in leading cross-functional teams through complex projects. As a project manager, I facilitated effective communication and organized brainstorming sessions to overcome challenges and fostered strong team morale. I believe my ability to bridge communication gaps and foster teamwork would be invaluable in your dynamic environment."

There is no one right answer. Know yourself and your strengths and then describe them in the context of specific situations. Let your prospective employer know how you used your strengths to resolve a specific issue.

Many candidates were too humble with their strengths. They tend to enlarge their weaknesses and downplay their strength. Why is it so? Because they don't even recognise their own strength. Candidates, this is not the time to eat the humble pie. Consider this: If you are not showcasing yourself, how would your employers know what you are capable of? How do you uncover your strengths? Ask these questions to guide you: 1) In what way that my experience and qualification fit this role that I am applying? 2) What evidence have I done before that proved my capabilities to take up this role? 3) How my capabilities could solve the dire challenges that the company/ industry may be facing? If you can answer these, you know your value.

Candidates often have the misconception that highlighting their strengths in an interview is equivalent to boasting. However, I believe that it is important to showcase your abilities and accomplishments in a project, task, or workplace setting. Utilizing the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) can effectively demonstrate your achievements and proud moments. It is crucial to ensure that your examples remain relevant to the job application and the company you are applying to.

Of cource, it is very important to show my core strengths that are relevant to the job and the company because a candidate can image the job correctly before preparing the inteview. So, we have to think demonstrations by using specific examples for the candidate. In addition, it is effective method to use the STAR method to structure our stories and hightlight our positive impact.

For me, picking three to five our strength that are most important for the position and the employer is essential because I can show my combination of hard skills and soft skills easily. For instance, if I am applying for a sales role, I may describe my communication, negotiation and so on.

In my experience, giving a clear message answer is very significant. We have to show our expectations and challenges of the role for the interviewer because the interviewer can image our job more clearly. It is a good way how we have contributed to successful team projects by depending on roles.

Just be honest! We all have strengths and weaknesses. And I would hope you feel your strengths would align with the needs of the organization and the position for which you are interviewing, or you wouldn't be there. So make that alignment obvious for the interviewer. And let your confidence shine. Trust me, it's not bragging. It's helping the interviewer understand why you are the ideal candidate and why you will be successful in the role. What hiring manager doesn't want that?!?

100% honesty. Yes, expand on your strengths and experience but be brutally honest about where support may be needed. Understanding both your own strengths and weaknesses is an admirable trait! It also gives your potential employer a picture of you within the business!! Honesty and authenticity will take any business to new levels! Let's do it!!!

This is often hard to do. When trying to show you are the best fit, why would you want to showcase your weaknesses? Prepare for this question. What is something you have been told you need to work on? Have you started working on it? You can use that as your example, and share your progress. You can also choose something that some folks may consider a strength where others would consider it a weakness. One of the things I've had to work on is patience. I want to complete my project, but I need to wait for others to do their parts before I can wrap it all up. That had been an issue when I was constantly following up until I got what I needed. Now I have the patience to wait until a day before the due date to follow up. Not easy!