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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Strengths and weakness

STRENGTHS:

Mention at the most 3 prominent strengths. 
• Strengths professional could be: efficient time management / people skills / leadership skills / communication / marketing skills, high resilience skills / eye for detail. Professional strengths could be: Quick learner, Technically talented in your field of excellence, talented business mindedness etc.., 
• Strengths personally could be high ethical values / strong willpower / human aspect to your personality / down to earth attitude/ positive approach / etc… 

WEAKNESS:

Mention atleast 2 weaknesses.
Although the essay asks for weaknesses, one should mention them as areas of improvement. 
Suggested not to mention weaknesses that would influence the applicants admit chances negatively.
Weaknesses should be strictly relevant to the professional environment.
Mention whether you have been working on your weaknesses.
• If you are working hard and you are not able to market your skill sets that is a high risk weakness, best avoided/ people management etc…. should not be preferably highlighted…
• At a personal level, you could mention – Management skills like time management/ (not being able to balance time between your professional and personal life wherein your personal life suffers due to busy schedules) / Inability to refuse or say ‘NO’ / Inability to multi task (for a person with relatively less experience say – <4 yrs) / eye for detail / temperament etc…
Mention clear pointers, instances or experiences that molded you into the person that you are today.

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