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Job Interviews – Tips For Identifying Your Strengths and Landing the Job You Want
By Administrator | January 30, 2010
All successful job interviews are based around a certain structure. This structure allows hiring managers to pick up on all of the main characteristics that will determine whether you are suitable for the position. One of the most predominant of these characteristics is your strengths.
Strengths are so broad that you can literally use any example, either in employment or personally outside of work. The great thing about talking about your strengths in an interview is that you can use non-work examples to cover up lack of experience or skills.
Ultimately, the employer is trying to ascertain whether you have the personality, attitude and capability to do the job in question. Therefore, skills can be learned but strengths are long term developments…meaning that if you don’t have any strengths when applying for the job (in any capacity) then you’re going to be far less desirable than your competitors.
Here’s a few tips to identify your strengths when asked this potentially make or break question during an interview…
Identifying Your Strengths
Start by asking friends and family what they would describe as your strengths as a person. Then ask your current employer for a more professional approach.
Finally, simply look over achievements you’ve made in your life and identify what strengths were required to make those particular achievements. This way, not only will you identify some of your best strengths (whether it be anything from positivity to typing skills…), but you will also have a clear example to give which will add much needed proof to your claims.
Let’s look at some other strengths that you might want to consider…
Strengths That Are Based On Work Skills
These are actual hands on strengths such as:
- Being able to type 60 words per minute,
- Being able to solve technical problems
- Being able to organize your daily tasks
- Being able to communicate effectively
Emotional and mental strengths
Strengths can also be represented in your mental attitude. Some examples of this would be:
- Being able to handle stressful situations
- Being able to motivate yourself
- Being able to work well in a team
- Being able to cope with negativity and remain positive
- Being able to stay calm under pressure
Essentially, these are just a fraction of possible strengths you might posses. These types of strengths will always be welcomed with open arms in any job application. Providing you take the time to prepare some examples (which the employer might actually ask you for), then you stand a great chance of getting one step closer to winning that dream job.
Remember, every individual has their own strengths based on a unique combination of skills and mental attitude. Try to think beyond the obvious strengths you have, such as the example above, and think of key characteristics that people see in you above anyone else…
…because these are the strengths that will also set you apart in your job interview too.
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