From the course: Expert Tips for Answering Common Interview Questions
Candidate answer and feedback
(upbeat music) - Let's see how someone approaches the what is your greatest strength question. I'll be right back with some feedback. - Thanks for asking about my strengths. What I bring to the team is a strong record in relationship building. At the heart of it, I'm happiest when I'm engaging with people, learning what motivates them, and then strategizing about how we can help one another. I find that in sales some people can be overly transactional. I think my superpower is in establishing more meaningful connections. I've gotten strong feedback in the past. he'd ever met. And these sort of connections have turned into big sales wins. Last year, I doubled my client base and outperformed my peers by 40%. And it's probably relevant to share that I started in that role without any contacts in the field. Today, there isn't a Fortune 100 company that doesn't know about the product I sold last. - She crushed it. I'm really impressed. And as a hiring manager, I'm super confident in adding this person to my team. Let me tell you the three things that I heard. Number one, she was specific. She shared real numbers. Number two, she was authentic. Her authenticity came through in her interactions with the customer. And then number three, it was relevant. The experience and the story all came together and she supported that with numbers. This is someone I would want to add to my team.
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