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Strengths, Weaknesses, and Advice

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Describe your strengths and weaknesses, and tell me what advice a colleague has given you.

I’m looking for more than a list of traits. I want to hear how you understand your own working style, where it helps, where it can get in the way, and whether you actually act on feedback. A strong answer should be specific, balanced, and grounded in a real example from your work.

Good responses show self-awareness without sounding rehearsed or defensive. They connect a weakness to concrete steps you’ve taken to improve, and they include a piece of advice from a colleague that changed how you work.