How to identify your Strengths and Weaknesses?

During a job interview, the interviewer may ask you about your strengths and weaknesses. To know your strengths and weaknesses, he may ask you questions like - Tell me about your strengths and weaknesses, what are your strengths and weaknesses. You should also write about your strengths and weaknesses in your resume. This helps the interviewer to understand how much you know about yourself.

So let us first understand what are strengths and weaknesses.

What are the Strengths and Weaknesses?

Those qualities and habits that encourage you to do anything are called your strengths. Those good and unique qualities in you are found in very few people or only in you. If 50 people have come for interview for the post of manager in a company and you are the only one among them with an MBA degree, then this is your strength. If you can speak 10 languages, then this is also your strength.

The qualities and habits that prevent you from doing good work are your weaknesses. Your weaknesses will prevent you from doing good work. You may also lose good opportunities in your career because of your weakness. For example, if you never reach anywhere on time, you will be late for the interview and because of this you may lose a good job.

Now let's look at some examples of strengths and weaknesses that you can also write in your resume for interview.

10 Examples of Strength

• Video editing
• Always complete work on time
• Speak more than one language
• To speak politely
• Repair computer
• Team player
• Time management
• Problem-solving
• Website Designing
• Mobile app development

10 Examples of Weakness

• Not reaching office on time
• Not organizing your work
• Not managing time
• Does not like conflict
• Get bored with work
• Cannot communicate in English
• Not knowing computer programming
• Not able to speak in front of people
• Trying to please everyone
• Leaving work unfinished

How to identify your strengths and weaknesses?

Most of today's youth do not know about their strengths and weaknesses and never think about them. When they have to mention them in their resume, they copy from another person's resume. And during the interview, when the interviewer asks them about their strengths and weaknesses, they get confused and are unable to answer about their strengths and weaknesses.

Please keep in mind that the interviewer asks you such questions only to know how you will benefit the company.

If you haven’t thought about your strengths and weaknesses yet then I am going to tell you here how you can find out your strengths and weaknesses.

First of all, find a place where you can sit peacefully. A peaceful place in your house can be your bedroom, terrace or garden. Now write on a piece of paper what are the good qualities and what are the bad qualities in you. You can write about your good and bad qualities like this:

Good qualities in me

• I can sing well
• I am good at general knowledge
• I know how to play the guitar
• I play cricket very well

Bad qualities in me

• I feel shy to speak in front of people
• I do not complete my work on time
• I am always late in going to office

And now write down what your parents, siblings say about you. If you can't remember too many good or bad qualities about yourself, talk to your family and ask what they say about you.

After that, you should think about what your school teachers say about you. A teacher in your school is like a guardian to you who tells you your good qualities to encourage you. And he also tells you your shortcomings so that you can improve them. Write down the words or sentences your teacher says to you.

And now, you should pay attention to what your friends say to you or talk about you. We spend less time at home and more time with friends. We also share things with our friends that we don't feel comfortable sharing with our family.

After knowing all the qualities about yourself, you have to compare your good and bad qualities. You will see that there will be some good qualities of yours which others have said bad about you and some bad qualities which others have said good about you. Now, find out the general good and bad qualities about yourself. Generally good qualities are your strengths and bad qualities are your weaknesses.

This way you will know your strengths and weaknesses and will not have any problem in answering about them even during the job interview.