Question: What are your strengths?

Alternative Question Phrasing:

What is your greatest strength?
What do you consider to be your greatest professional strengths?

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Question Details:

Question Type:

Traditional

Other Factors:

Candidate Preparedness,Personal Improvement (Growth),Personality-Job Fit,Personality-Organization Fit,Personality-Team Fit,Self-Awareness

Work Style (Person-Job Fit):

Achievement/Effort (Action/Result Orientation),Humility

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What to look for in an answer:

You are looking for past experience in a similar job or mention of skills transferable to this role. The interviewee could also mention motivations and values that they have that might fit with your organization’s culture and goals.

Red Flags to Watch For:

Overinflated strengths or over-exaggerated strengths. These could indicate a self-centred person with poor self-awareness.

Some candidates might say that they have no particular strengths. This may be due to them being humble or due to their culture discouraging them from self-praise. Although not a red flag, this will mean that you need to tease out why they say they have no particular strengths, and not just accept their initial answer at a surface level.

Sample Answer:

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