Understanding your strengths is one thing, but translating them in an interview is another.

I came across a post recently (in another platform) about building careers around your strengths instead of constantly trying to fix weaknesses. The concept of it is fine, but a lot of times, even tho

I came across a post recently (in another platform) about building careers around your strengths instead of constantly trying to fix weaknesses. The concept of it is fine, but a lot of times, even though you understand what you’re good at, know the types of problems you solve well, the environment where you perform best, and the kind of work or tasks that you like, when the interview starts, that clear picture you had of yourself completely disappears. Instead of showing those strengths through clear examples, we tend to fall back on describing responsibilities, listing tasks, or giving answers that stay very general. The irony is that the strengths are there, they don’t magically disappear, they just don’t get translated accurately in the moment. An interview is one of the few situations where we have to quickly connect: • a question • a real example • the decision we made • and the outcome that followed All in a way that demonstrates how we think and operate. Understanding your strengths is important for career development, but interviews are where we realize that being able to articulate those strengths through concrete examples is a completely different skill. Thoughts? 👀👇🏽