Tough Interview Questions: What Are Your 5 Ideal Personality Traits?
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Another cute one and how to answer it,
Although this question that I posed in the title looks like it’s an interview question, it’s really a part of your preparation for an interview.
Now, I picked up this idea from the book, “301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions.” It’s been out for a while. I thinking you can get a PDF online; that’s what I was able to do.
But the short version of how to prepare in this respect for the kind of personality you want to show in your answers from demonstrating emotional intelligence they will offer in two steps.
The first idea is to select five adjectives that you believe are going to capture your with the with work persona and it starts off with the first two. These are personality traits that you might use if you were going to describe yourself to a close friend or a date.
So, the example that’s offered in the book, the first two that you would pick from there is intelligent and perceptive. You pick ones that work for you. You might use smart, clever . . . Whatever it is you pick two that you think you might use to describe yourself to civilian . . . LOL . . . But by that I mean someone who is not working with you professionally.
Then, the next three are really adjectives that you believe would allow you to do a great job. So, again, following the example from the book, industrious, empathetic, creative
So, what you’re looking for our ways that you can demonstrate your personality in the course of answering the question. You might speak in terms of . . . let’s say you’re in a situation where a firm asks you, “What would you do to fulfill our company’s vision?” Of course, this is a question that is going to be asked of a more senior professional, and you might talk about going to an off-site retreat, bringing senior leadership, working with the firm’s mission statement, distilling it down to a couple of sentences, working to bring this out to everyone and you might talk in terms of your qualities of empathy and creativity in that situation.
There are lots of different ways to illustrate personality in the course of your interviews but the idea, very simply, is wherever you can, firms are not hiring robots. . . At least they are not asking you to be a robot. They are looking first human beings who will fit into their culture and, as such, what you’re looking for is a way of expressing that in the course of your answer.
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