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363 "Your greatest strength."

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Published October 7, 2017 14 Comments

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  1. Kimberly Brink - CastleberryKimberly Brink - Castleberry says

    October 7, 2017 at 6:03 am

    So true

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  2. Tomasz GwóźdźTomasz Gwóźdź says

    October 7, 2017 at 6:10 am

    I can tell you my most minor weakness, would that count?

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  3. Justin Karpicky says

    October 7, 2017 at 7:06 am

    I’m having that problem trying to get a new job..

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    • Anony says

      October 17, 2017 at 3:56 am

      All the best

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  4. FML says

    October 7, 2017 at 7:10 am

    I hit the 10 year mark at my current employer recently. To celebrate there was a meeting with a lot of the people I have worked with and my current and a few previous managers. As the managers took there turns telling praising me in front of the group the only thought I had was, “they can’t really be talking about me.” Depression makes even good things suck.

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  5. Jeffery WitmanJeffery Witman says

    October 7, 2017 at 8:07 am

    This is why learning to lie is important.

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    • Hannes MaaderHannes Maader says

      October 10, 2017 at 11:09 pm

      At least one needs to learn to convey a enhanced truth…

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    • Ardent Slacker says

      October 11, 2017 at 1:16 pm

      Learning to lie is almost as vital as knowing when and why to lie.

      And… you ever wonder if maybe we’re just… not good at believing our own lies? I mean, cults are a great example of how con men con themselves into… well, becoming batshit crazy. Do we have different resistance?

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  6. Justina YehJustina Yeh says

    October 7, 2017 at 1:11 pm

    My annual staff apprasial in my job asks me to list my strengths and weaknesses. (self apprasial then boss apprasial :/ ) I have no idea what my strengths are and I’ve a long list of weaknesses… Of course I know I can’t be honest on my apprasial too…

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  7. Lucien BalvedaLucien Balveda says

    October 7, 2017 at 6:35 pm

    Ouch, this hits home. Even if I present a strength actually possess, I feel that I’m lying about it.

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  8. Anonymous says

    October 10, 2017 at 12:20 am

    The trick is to combine sarcasm with indifference to make the truth sound like a lie.

    “What is your greatest strength?”
    “Somehow I never give up, even when I feel like I really should. I just keep going, day after day.”

    “What do you bring to the company?”
    “Respect for the superiority of others and the value of self-sacrifice.”

    “What are your plans for the future?”
    “…”
    “Sir?”
    “This seems like the kind of place I could work at until I die.”

    “Great! Welcome aboard.”

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  9. Lauren says

    October 10, 2017 at 1:04 am

    seeing this, I KNOW how that feels. I would like to think that, in dealing with depression i can try and see these parts of it and hope sharing helps others realize this.
    So far my greatest strengths are that i am persevering, i can take each day as it comes and even if i fall I make the effort to keep going even when I really don’t want to.
    I have courage to try and learn things – in which i don’t tell the person interviewing me that i had the courage to come here and talk to them cause that is terrifying sometimes – i have skills in every day things that some people cannot claim and that is ok. i have teachable skills i would like to pass on.
    little things that we think don’t matter do. its trying to see how they can be applied to the job.

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  10. Agarax says

    October 11, 2017 at 1:32 am

    My best job-related qualities are that I have a very good memory, enjoy solving problems, reason logically, and can concentrate on a task for a long time.

    When I was depressed I had none of those. It impaired my ability to learn, robbed me of all sense of accomplishment, flooded my mind with irrational thoughts, and destroyed my concentration. So I worked at dead-end manual labour jobs.

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    • Laura says

      October 11, 2017 at 3:34 pm

      This is so very important and I understand it so well. You don’t have your normal mental capabilities when you’re going through a period of depression.
      Personal rant ahead: When I was in junior high, I had really high grades, usually top of the class. I could do homework until 4am and then go to class the next day with little to no problem, I devoured the textbooks hungrily, reading way more than what we were asked to, I enjoyed tutoring my classmates on physics and always got straight As on bio until I graduated high school. Everyone told me I was really smart and had a great future ahead, but I fell into a hole during university and suddenly I was not good at any of the things I used to be good at and enjoyed before. I lost my ability to concentrate, memory, problem solving skills, study habits, and any pleasure or motivation for learning. Suddenly I was failing all my courses really badly, including physics and bio, and I just felt like an essential part of me, of who I was, had been stolen.
      I felt so, so dumb, and really guilty because I knew I could do it. I had done it before, so if I didn’t do it then, it must be because I didn’t want to. I was just too lazy, right?
      What depression does to your brain and how it impairs you is no joke.

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