In the workplace, you can't enlarge your "disadvantages"

After the completion of the business training, each student at the ceremony held a report on the stage. The reported PPT templates are uniform, and one of them requires everyone to talk about “personal strengths and weaknesses.” Sometimes this question is also expressed in terms of “personal strengths and weaknesses”.

This problem is also common in general recruitment interviews and public selection. As a non-professional HR, I often ask candidates in the interview.

On one occasion, a business manager told his three shortcomings in the report because he said that he had only one advantage and three shortcomings. I was particularly impressed. He said, "My shortcomings are poor memory, lost three and four." I also forgot one.

These two shortcomings are terrible when I hear them. In the workplace, Imagine, which manager is willing to have a “bad memory, lost three” staff? If you give him a special job, would you be relieved?

The newly graduated newcomer does not have much experience in the workplace. I suspect that he has magnified his shortcomings and asked: You said that you have poor memory and lost your mind. Please listen to the recent examples of losing three.

He didn't think of the case behind this "disadvantage" for a moment. I suggested "Is it a rent to rent, or is it forgotten to take the key? Or something else?..." He thought about it, saying: Mom called to ask for morning or noon. What? I can’t remember it.

I laughed. My niece eats the school house at noon every day. When she goes home at night to ask her what she has eaten at the school house at noon or what she has eaten at her grandmother's house at night, she will probably answer me “forgot”. In fact, this kind of dialogue between mother and child or mother and daughter about "what to eat" is a form of concern. The person who is a child is mostly not in the heart. The answer is perfunctory, not that he is not good at remembering. For example, when I first joined the work, my mom asked me to go to work almost every day. Now I often ask my niece to leave school. Today, she told you, tomorrow you will still ask, it is a daily home-time conversation, does not mean my mother or my own bad memory.

I often "advertise" myself "very well remembered." When I feel that I have a good memory, I actually give myself a hint in my mind. I want to remember good things. "Good memory" is the state I want. So I became a person in my own eyes and in my own mind - a good memory.

If you really have bad memory or lose your mind, you must accept your own "disadvantages". Only accepting can allow you to improve and improve, because you can't remember everything, or you can't remember. Explain that the matter itself is not important. More than a decade ago, a former colleague used a taxi to drop a computer with more than 10,000 yuan in a taxi. Fortunately, he found it later. When others despise him, he said, "I don't believe that you have no carelessness and negligence?" I still remember his eyes.

Regarding the topic of "excellence and shortcomings", the advice given by professionals is: talk about the advantages should not exceed three; talk about the shortcomings only talk about one and many.

Therefore, as a professional person, when you have the opportunity to talk about your own strengths and weaknesses in front of the public, you should talk about your own strengths to enhance your self-confidence. As for the shortcomings, one is enough, some of you are picky, The "disadvantages" that the word "drilled" are likely to be magnified many times in others, affecting what they call "career." Because, many of the so-called managers in the world are mostly nitpicking and picking up people.