Interview Preparation: Your Strengths

Readings

For this week's assignment, let's start thinking about your strengths! If you are unsure of what you are good at or have never performed a strength assessment you can complete a free top 5 strengths test by navigating to the High 5 for Individuals: Strengths Test Links to an external site. website. You do not have to pay for the full report unless that is important to you - your top 5 strengths are free.   

Read the following short articles about how to answer the interview question, "What is your greatest strength?" It's a trickier question than we may think.

Interview Question: "What Is Your Greatest Strength?" Links to an external site. from The Balance Careers

HOW TO ANSWER: What Are Your Strengths? Links to an external site. from Big Interview

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What is your Greatest Strength?

After reading the above articles, let's put them to use. Imagine you are at an interview and you get asked, "What is your Greatest Strength?"

For this week's journal entry, write up an answer to that question. You can write up a paragraph that you might like to say, or you can brainstorm some ideas that you could use and list them all out with notes for clarification and things to remember in your answer. 

Make this a good paragraph size, something in the neighborhood of 200 words at minimum.