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  • As you prepare and practice your answers for a job interview, youll want to study great answers

  • and answers that aren’t so strong.

  • Here, well see four people, a teacher, a doctor, a social worker, and a marketing expert, interview for a job.

  • Well take some standard interview questions and study how they answered them

  • to figure out how you can form your own compelling answers.

  • Today well study two prompts:

  • describe one of your strengths, and, the opposite, describe one of your weaknesses.

  • Well see how talking about your weaknesses can still leave a very positive impression in an interview.

  • It’s common for employers to ask about your strengths in an interview.

  • Don’t just list a couple of things, this is your chance to let people know why they would want to hire you.

  • Come up with things that youve achieved at work that youre proud of

  • and find your strengths that describe that.

  • Then, in the interview, when youre talking about your strengths, tell that supporting detail.

  • Let’s compare different responses to the prompt: tell me about your strengths.

  • One of my strengths, I think, is I can look at something globally, from a perspective of far away.

  • And then think about those general goals, and then switch to being detail-oriented

  • and looking at what is the specific work that needs to be done in order to accomplish those more global goals?

  • That’s a good strength to have.

  • A lot of people can see the big picture but don’t do well with the details,

  • and then others can be very organized with details but lack the vision for bigger thinking.

  • So the fact that Lisa is strong in both is great.

  • But, her response would be even better if she could think of one bigger picture project that she worked on,

  • talk about it, and then talk about some of the details for it, how she figured out the steps and made that happen.

  • That’s something I’m more likely to remember.

  • Adrienne doesn’t go into a specific story about her strength, empathy,

  • but she ties it directly to how it benefits her in the workplace in two ways.

  • I think one of my greatest strengths is my ability to have empathy for others

  • and that's really effective within the workplace, with my colleagues, and trying to understand

  • people's priorities are so different,

  • and their feelings are so different, and we all have different things that we're coming to.

  • And so for me to understand

  • other people's priorities and be able to collaborate with them to reach a compromise with

  • everybody's feelings is very effective.

  • And having empathy is also really useful in thinking about reaching customers as a marketer

  • that I want to understand the thoughts and feelings and concerns of my target audience

  • so we can message them and we can bring events for them that really align with

  • what they need and what makes their lives better.

  • Dan also gets specific with his strength, which he says is his ability to work in a team.

  • He talks about the kinds of teams and the kinds of environments he’s worked in in the past,

  • and then ties that into another strength, being a people person.

  • So one of my strongest strengths is that I'm a team player.

  • I have been, worked on many clinical teams in the past,

  • with doctors, nurses, social workers, in some high intensity environments like emergency rooms,

  • mobile crisis teams, inpatient psychiatric facilities,

  • and I've always been able to work well on an interdisciplinary team.

  • I value being on the team with other people.

  • I value working with folks that have different skill sets than I do,

  • and I get a lot of energy from working with other people.

  • I think one of my greatest skills is being a people person, and being able to work with other people

  • towards a common goal.

  • As you think about your strengths,

  • make sure youre able to talk specifically about how those come into play in the workplace.

  • If possible, have a specific example from your past

  • when one of these great qualities about you helped you get something done at work.

  • This brings me to an important point: timing.

  • You might be able to come up with a list of ten strengths.

  • Talking about those in detail would take way too long.

  • All the answers we just studied were 30 to 45 seconds.

  • Aim for somewhere in there.

  • Shorter than 30 seconds would be too brief

  • if you can answer that quickly, youre probably not giving the kind of detail that an employer wants to hear.

  • If youre getting much longer than that, two minutes, more, then it’s too long.

  • You want to give good, meaty answers, but you also want to give the person interviewing you a chance

  • to chime in with follow-up questions.

  • Just as employers are interested in your strengths and how you talk about them,

  • theyre also likely to be interested in the opposite, your weaknesses.

  • They may use this word, or they may talk aboutyour areas for growth’.

  • Let’s listen to how Jeff answers this question.

  • I would say one of the weaknesses that I have,

  • which is a kind of a counterpart to being able to envision a future state, maybe several steps down the road,

  • is that it's harder sometimes for me to see the tiny specific steps that you need in order to reach that goal.

  • So sometimes I tend to jump

  • to the end product before realizing that there's a lot of tiny pieces that have to go into place

  • in order to reach that end product, and that sometimes has gotten me into trouble.

  • He gives a specific weakness, and this is in contrast to his strength,

  • where he does have great vision for projects.

  • But then he stops there.

  • Now, weve talked a lot about going into detail on answers,

  • and I wouldn’t necessarily suggest that you come up with great stories about

  • how your weaknesses have made things go poorly at work,

  • but I would suggest that you spend some time thinking about concrete things you've done

  • or could do to help you manage the weaknesses and improve.

  • Listen to how Lisa answers the question.

  • So one of my challenges is that I get very excited about projects and then I want to do them in great detail,

  • or I'll get excited about another project too, and I'll start that and suddenly, I'll have multiple projects going

  • and I'll be trying to do too much with them.

  • So I think my challenge is to keep it simple.

  • And I need to learn to put some things on hold,

  • and a good idea might be to keep a notebook where I keep some of those ideas sort of simmering,

  • but I don't jump into them until I finished some of my other things.

  • She changed the wordweaknessand usedchallengeinstead.

  • That’s not a bad idea, it can have the same meaning but

  • 'challenge' might have a bit more of a positive feeling around it.

  • She names a weakness and then gives a concrete example of how she might manage it:

  • keep a notebook of her ideas so she doesn’t feel like she has to dive into all of them right away.

  • Let’s hear how Adrienne describes her area for growth.

  • At this point in my career, I think the biggest area for growth is gaining experience.

  • Managing a larger team of people.

  • My experience up to this point has been managing one to two people directly,

  • but also managing a handful of other people indirectly

  • on projects because I really take ownership of projects that I'm working on,

  • whether I'm directly managing people or not,

  • but I'm really looking forward to an opportunity in my next career step

  • to directly manage a team of five to eight people.

  • She frames her weakness as a lack of direct experience in something she wishes to do.

  • I like how she talks about how she has only directly managed one to two people,

  • but she mentions that she has indirectly managed larger groups on certain projects

  • because she takes ownership of them.

  • This makes me feel like she’s a leader and that she takes a lot of initiative in the workplace.

  • She also gets really specific at the end, that she would like to manage a team of 5-8 people.

  • This may have been something she pulled right off of the job description for the job she’s interviewing for.

  • And this is a great idea.

  • As you study the job description, there might be a role youll play at this new job that's outside your experience.

  • An employer might be looking for someone who already has that experience.

  • But Adrienne addressed this concern that I might have

  • about a lack of experience by letting me know that she has actually unofficially managed larger teams of people

  • at previous jobs.

  • And by hearing her say this is what she wants to do as the next step in her career,

  • I can know it's something she’s thought about and that it's something she feels ready for.

  • You can think of your weaknesses or areas for growth in two ways.

  • First, your personality.

  • Jeff isn’t a detail person,

  • and Lisa gets too excited about ideas to the point where she has too many projects going on

  • to finish them all effectively.

  • Listing a weakness like this can be a great sign of self-awareness.

  • Make sure you always follow it up with what youre actively doing to manage that weakness,

  • like Lisa’s notebook idea, or using an app to set up reminders for yourself

  • so all the small parts of a bigger project get done on time.

  • The second way you can talk about your weakness or area for growth

  • can be in reference to the job description.

  • Perhaps there is a part of the job that youre less qualified for.

  • Finding a clever way to talk about how you want to grow and believe you can grow in that experience,

  • like Adrienne did, can be a wonderful way to answer this prompt.

  • In the next video, well pull different common questions from these mock interviews

  • to examine effective answers, including, tell me why youre the right person for this job.

  • It can be tough to figure out the best way to answer this question,

  • but well make sure you can answer convincingly and with confidence.

  • For my non-native students, were going to get to your English lesson in just a minute.

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  • Now the English lesson.

  • Let’s talk for a minute about the pronunciation of two tricky words: strength and strengths.

  • Strength begins with the STR consonant cluster, and this can be pronounced two ways.

  • You might hear it with a clear T, st, st, st, strength, or you might hear it where the T sounds like a CH, sch, sch,

  • strength, strength.

  • Either pronunciation is okay.

  • It’s common to make the T a CH sound when it’s followed by R.

  • Then we have the EH vowel, stre-- streng-- and the NG consonant.

  • The back of the tongue lifts and touches the soft palate for NG.

  • Streng--

  • Sometimes NG also makes a hard G sound, like in Eng-gg-glish, English, but that doesn’t happen here.

  • There is no G sound.

  • Streng, strength.

  • And finally, the unvoiced TH at the end.

  • The tongue tip must come through the teeth for this.

  • Strength. Strength.

  • Let air flow lightly.

  • Strength.

  • What about when we add an S?

  • Strengths?

  • Most people in most situations don’t take the time to bring the tongue tip through the teeth for the TH.

  • The TH is much less obvious here than when the word is singular.

  • As I study various native speakers sayingstrengths,’

  • it actually sounds like some of them drop the TH completely.

  • Then it ends up sounding like a K sound, strenks, strenks.

  • Strengths and weaknesses.

  • So in an interview, you could take this shortcut on this tricky word, and say:

  • One of my greatest strengths is.

  • Strengths or strength.

  • Th--- with a very, very quick TH sounds.

  • With a little practice, you won’t stumble on these words in an interview.

  • Break them down and practice them slowly.

  • Strengths, strength.

  • That’s it, and thanks so much for using Rachel’s English.

As you prepare and practice your answers for a job interview, youll want to study great answers

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    林宜悉 に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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