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Strengths and weaknesses are a common type of interview question whereby a candidate is asked to self-evaluate. The following are common areas of strengths and weaknesses followed by a few detailed examples.
Accountable - owns mistakes
Accuracy
Adaptable
Administration
Ambitious
Assertive
Budgets
Business Acumen
Candid / Direct / Overly Blunt
Closing Sales
Coding
Committed
Compassionate
Competitive
Conflict Resolution
Conscientious
Cooperative
Credible / Respected by Peers
Customer Advocacy
Customer Service
Decisive / Indecisive
Dedicated
Delivering to Expectations
Design
Determined
Diligent
Disciplined
Energetic
Engaged
Enthusiastic
Entrepreneurial
Executive Communication
Experience / Inexperience
Fast Learner
Financial Management
Flexible
Friendly / Perceived as Distant
Handling Ambiguity
Handling Political Pressures
Handling Stress (e.g. difficult customer service interactions)
Handling Time Pressure
Honesty
Industry Connections / Lack of Connections
Influencing / Getting to Yes
Initiative
Insightful
Knowledge / Knowledge Gaps
Managing Commitments
Managing Expectations
Mathematics / Statistics
Meeting Deadlines
Meeting Management
Negotiation
Organized / Disorganized
Outgoing / Reserved / Shy
Overthinking
Patient
People Management
Perfectionism
Pragmatic / Optimistic / Realistic / Pessimistic
Presentations
Priority Setting
Problem Solver
Process Improvement
Process Management
Public Speaking
Relationship Building
Reporting
Resilient
Resourceful
Responsible
Responsive
Self-Correcting
Self-Directed
Self-Starter
Setting Goals / Objectives
Technical Skills
Testing Ideas / Experiments
Timely / Reasonable Decisions
Verbal Communication
Visual Communication
Work Ethic
Work Quality
Work Throughput / Productivity

Strengths

A question of strengths allows you to display confidence and demonstrate talents that are application to a role. A typically answer will include a concrete example. If you don't provide an example you can expect a follow up question that requests one.
I'm extremely reliable. For example, I worked 5 years in my last job without being late once. I called in sick no more than 2 or 3 times over that entire period.

I have high work throughput. For example, in any project I'm typically given the most complex functions to code because I typically deliver thousands of lines of working code a day.

I'm good with customers, even under stress. This is why I was promoted to front desk manager by my previous employer -- the front desk manager handles customer complaints and solves customer problems. I had demonstrated a knack for turning around situations where customers were unhappy about something to get them smiling again -- so I was promoted.

Weaknesses

Weaknesses are an opportunity to show that you're self-aware and self-correcting. A reasonably good answer is to state some weakness and then describe how you've improve in this area. If there is an elephant in the room -- a skill that you will need for a role that you don't have, this is ideal. The common advice to state a weakness that is actually a strength may be perceived as disingenuous.
I see in this role that I will need to know PHP and I am not well versed in this language. This shouldn't be a problem as I know 5 programming languages at present and have always learned new languages within weeks.

As I understand it this job would require public speaking and I don't have much experience with that. However, in my current role I often give presentations at the weekly team meeting and at monthly board meetings. These presentations have always gone well such that I feel I'm up to the challenge.

In the past, my reports and executive summaries included too many details. I tend to be detail oriented and have worked to try to simplify my messaging to get to the high level information that executives need. [expect a follow up -- what information do executives need?]

Personal Strengths

This is the complete list of articles we have written about personal strengths.
Cognitive Strengths
Communication
Constructive
Courage
Creative
Critical Thinking
Customer Service
Decision Making
Design
Design Thinking
Diligence
Discipline
Important Strengths
Influencing
Inner Strength
Leadership
Life Skills
Listening
Logical
Management
Managing Risk
Motivated
Networking
People Person
Personal Accomplishments
Personal Power
Personal Presence
Personal Qualities
Planning
Pragmatic
Problem Solving
Productive
Public Speaking
Reliable
Research
Self-Direction
Storytelling
Systems Thinking
Technical Skills
Time Management
Visual Thinking
Win-Win Thinking
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