In a job interview, a sales manager rattled off 6 strengths in response to the HR manager's question about them. After a brief consideration, the HR manager asked how he came up with this "narrow board" of having all these strengths. Can you imagine the following tough 5 minutes of the interview?
Strengths and weaknesses and other soft skills belong docked in the script. They are evidenced and explained situationally. Weaknesses are identified, worked on, but still present. Strengths do not come across as boastful, but are grounded in performance, experience and competency values, and when described lead to a match with the target position. The selection from a portfolio of 10 strengths must be individualized, based on the previous course of the success presentation or interview, of course only on demand.
