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How to Answer: What is your Strength?

Postby grecy0905 » 27 Feb 2017, 18:47

What if you are asked, what is your strength? What if they asked, what is your greatest strength? Do we really need to have super powers for us to have a job, or we can answer the question in a way that we know ourselves and how we can do the job?

When this question is asked during a job interview, it doesn’t ask for your super powers like Superman. They want to know your strength if this will fit for the kind of environment they have. This could identify if you are one of the strongest applicants they could choose and if you are prepared to do the job responsibilities.

How will you answer this?

Check the job posting and lists your skills
It is important to check the information in the job posting. Mostly, employers are putting qualification, skills and experienced as a requirement for the application. Study the qualifications and choose that one that you already have. These skills include you’re the job responsibility skills, education requirement and training, and past work experience/responsibilities. Make three or five on the lists of requirements for qualification and make sure it correlates to yours. These are good strength samples. Be honest so you can able to justify your answer.

Remember your strength from the past job experience
Remembering your strength from the past job experience is one of that your future employer would like to hear from you. In this area, they have the clear idea of how you were on your past job. If you have the one to three strength that they are looking as a job requirement, they will surely put you to one of the stronger candidates for the job. Again, be honest so that you can able to reason out your answer. Be prepare to provide some examples. Remember some situations from your past job, the problem and how do you go about it. The results should be positive.

Make a good impression
If you answer this type of question, make sure you will be leaving a good impression. You don’t want your future employer to think you are the best of the best. Share it with pride. Just the right of a good impression is enough. Don’t exaggerate.

Take note of some of the Strength you could share
You can tell your employer that you have a strong work ethics, you focus on accuracy and readiness, you can handle difficult situation with positive results, you are results oriented, team oriented, or maybe independent, you can do the job alone, you have strong communications skills, hardworking and ability to do the job in a quick and efficient manner.

It is good to stay focus more on the job requirement lists than what your strength before so that your future employer will regard you as the one of the strongest applicants. This only means you are really fit for the kind environment they have and you will be a perfect addition to their team. Make sure that you do not memorize your answer because a well-rehearsed answer will only give them doubt that could affect your job application.
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Re: How to Answer: What is your Strength?

Postby haripriyavkl » 27 Feb 2017, 19:05

Thanks for the article. These are some really useful points which I will remember and follow when I go for my next interview. :thumbup:
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Re: How to Answer: What is your Strength?

Postby grecy0905 » 28 Feb 2017, 20:17

haripriyavkl wrote:Thanks for the article. These are some really useful points which I will remember and follow when I go for my next interview. :thumbup:


I am glad to be of help. I am learning from it too. I thought that it is very simple to answer but now I know that I need to put my strength in line with what the company is needing.
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Re: How to Answer: What is your Strength?

Postby WorkAtHomeGal » 01 Mar 2017, 08:54

Good article and a few new tips for me too. I always tend to apply more closely to offline jobs which I have the skills and strengths for since those interviews seem easier.
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Re: How to Answer: What is your Strength?

Postby chikitta » 02 Mar 2017, 12:46

This is some useful information right there thanks for sharing. Normally I used to have a hard time with this question but I eventually got the hang of it.
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Re: How to Answer: What is your Strength?

Postby grecy0905 » 05 Mar 2017, 09:54

WorkAtHomeGal wrote:Good article and a few new tips for me too. I always tend to apply more closely to offline jobs which I have the skills and strengths for since those interviews seem easier.


I made this one in able to understand the right way to answer it. I also need to remember not to exaggerate everything because for sure I will not land the job because sometimes it shows unbelievable.

-- 06 Mar 2017, 15:57 --

chikitta wrote:This is some useful information right there thanks for sharing. Normally I used to have a hard time with this question but I eventually got the hang of it.


I used to exaggerate answering this question that I look like faking it. Now I learned how.
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Re: How to Answer: What is your Strength?

Postby cmoneyspinner » 20 Apr 2017, 23:37

* * This makes me laugh. Not because what you're saying isn't serious. But because one time my boss asked her employees questions about theIR traits, strengths, weaknesses, etc. I turned my answers IN and she said I was the only one who answered. I'm thinking: “Dang it! If I had known nobody was going to respond immediately I could found something else to do!” Anyway I completed the Q & A and moved on. :)
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Re: How to Answer: What is your Strength?

Postby Happyland » 23 Apr 2017, 05:50

When talking about your strength(s) you should be prepared to provide an example or two. The key answer to this question is this: I would recommend that you don't say things that most people can say. Look over your past experience and extract some accomplishments that helped your prior organizations. Perhaps you found a way to cut costs, you increased revenue for the business or developed a better telephone for the blind. Find a way to link your accomplishments to the current position you are applying for.
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Re: How to Answer: What is your Strength?

Postby cmoneyspinner » 24 Apr 2017, 16:59

Happyland wrote:When talking about your strength(s) you should be prepared to provide an example or two. The key answer to this question is this: I would recommend that you don't say things that most people can say. Look over your past experience and extract some accomplishments that helped your prior organizations. Perhaps you found a way to cut costs, you increased revenue for the business or developed a better telephone for the blind. Find a way to link your accomplishments to the current position you are applying for.


* * I've closed chapters in my previous jobs when I worked outside the home. Now that I work for myself, my strength is that I have the same work habits I had when I did not work for myself. I don't need to be supervised or watched to make sure that I actually work. I am organized and driven. I get up each day with the aim of accomplishing productive and profitable work. So my main strength is? I'm consistently persistent!

I hope this is a better answer than the one I previously provided.
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Re: How to Answer: What is your Strength?

Postby grecy0905 » 29 Apr 2017, 01:26

That is an amazing strength @cmoneyspinner. I love to know you have a consistent persistent, it is like one of the amazing positive attitude of a person because you are combined. Consistent and persistent, I wish to have these too.
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Re: How to Answer: What is your Strength?

Postby peachpurple » 29 Apr 2017, 22:30

I kNow my own strength but those are not beneficial got boss, maybe I had been homemaker for too long
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Re: How to Answer: What is your Strength?

Postby Fergal » 30 Apr 2017, 09:13

peachpurple wrote:I kNow my own strength but those are not beneficial got boss

What is your strength? Why is it not beneficial to your boss? The vast majority of strengths are in some way beneficial to our work.
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Re: How to Answer: What is your Strength?

Postby Happyland » 30 Apr 2017, 14:45

Fergal wrote:
peachpurple wrote:I kNow my own strength but those are not beneficial got boss

What is your strength? Why is it not beneficial to your boss? The vast majority of strengths are in some way beneficial to our work.
I agree. If we know our strengths then we should use them. By using them we will become more valuable, dependable and consistent to a "boss". The boss in turn will (or should) realized our value proposition that we offer and recognize them in some way. Just tailor your strengths to exceed the needs of your position and/or your boss.
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Re: How to Answer: What is your Strength?

Postby grecy0905 » 03 May 2017, 03:31

peachpurple wrote:I kNow my own strength but those are not beneficial got boss, maybe I had been homemaker for too long

Still I know you have strength that will able for you to be useless in a team or even being a homemaker. Being is homemaker is a tough job, you must be applying time management because you are doing lots of things at one time.

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Happyland wrote:
Fergal wrote:
peachpurple wrote:I kNow my own strength but those are not beneficial got boss

What is your strength? Why is it not beneficial to your boss? The vast majority of strengths are in some way beneficial to our work.
I agree. If we know our strengths then we should use them. By using them we will become more valuable, dependable and consistent to a "boss". The boss in turn will (or should) realized our value proposition that we offer and recognize them in some way. Just tailor your strengths to exceed the needs of your position and/or your boss.


You are correct, also as you are learning everyday you will adopt new strength for sure. You will realize you have a potential to exceed those strength you already have.
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