What Are Your Weaknesses

Be diplomatic in your answers

When asked about your weakness, be diplomatic in your answers. Your prospective employer does not need to know all about your weakness in detail, even if they know about it in brief, it is more than enough. Be diplomatic to the extent that you treat your weakness as part of you and make sure it doesn’t affect your overall answer.

Say it briefly

As a person, you are bound to have more than one weakness. It is therefore essential to mention them briefly to the prospective employer, not as a conversation. You need to finish answering a question based on your weakness as soon as you can otherwise you will make the employer focus on your weakness unnecessarily.

Make comparisons with accomplished personalities

It is always a good idea to make comparisons with well known people who had similar weaknesses as you. For instance, if you are bad at math, then give examples of other great and accomplished people who were bad at math too but still made a name for themselves in spite of it.

Make comparisons with your own strengths

The point should always be to answer questions based on your weakness smartly; one way to do that is to draw comparisons between your weakness and your strength. For example, if you have average communication skills, add that you are great with computers to make up for it.

Talk about how you try to deal with your weakness

Every employer looks for a candidate who is willing to go the extra mile to improve themselves. It is therefore a good idea to talk about your weakness and how or what you do to improve yourself. For instance, when you say you aren’t comfortable with using Ms Office (which is a basic must for most jobs these days), talk about how you started extra classes every evening to improve yourself on the software. This will help employers feel that you are the kind of person who is willing to try even if you have a problem.

Show the interviewer how the weakness have made you perfect

Sometimes, a person’s weakness is what makes them who they are and what makes them strong. So in the real sense, if your weaknesses have helped shape you then you need to show that to the interviewer so that they are not taken aback by your weakness at all.

Tell them you are a wholesome person in spite of your weakness

As long as the interviewer is convinced that you are a wholesome person, your weaknesses aren’t going to matter to them. So try to portray your weaknesses accordingly so that it doesn’t affect their thought / decision to hire you.

In spite of all the points, always remember that you need to portray the best of you to your interviewer. So whatever the question put across to you, you need to be smart enough to answer it the way that gives the best impression of you, read up about handling interviews before you go for one if you aren’t sure of things. There are always books available, always friends to guide you, so use their help so that you can safely ace the interviews that you have to go for.

Always remember that – its about facing the challenge of grabbing the job offer full on.

15 Best Compliments to Give Women

You look beautiful

All women like to feel beautiful. And the best way for them to feel so is by people telling them they are. That’s why this figures as a number one compliment. If you are in a relationship with a woman, be sure to just keep telling her she is really beautiful.

You are so smart / intelligent

Women like to be told that they are smart and intelligent. Teamed with the compliment above, its pretty much one of the best compliments you could give them. Whenever they say or do something smart, tell them that they are very intelligent.

You are a great person

Women have their share of insecurity and therefore they need to often be told that they are great people to be around. A compliment as simple as this can make them feel very good.

You are perfect in every way

Women strive for perfection. They try their best to balance their work and personal commitments and a compliment that refers to how perfect they are can be a great compliment for them.

You are so cute

Along with being pretty or being made to feel pretty, women like to know or be told that they are cute. That’s why; it’s a good thing to tell them that they are cute in their looks and by nature.

You’re a great cook

Women cook (although some hate to from the bottom of their heart) they cook as part of their daily activity. And if they are told that they make delicious food, it makes them want to improve their skills.

You are so unique, I never met someone like you

Although women in general have a lot of similarity, they also strive to be unique and different from other women. So if told that they are unique, they feel really good about it.

You are so sensible and practical

By nature, women are wired to be practical and sensible. That’s why they run much more efficient households as compared to men. When given recognition for their practical sense, they appreciate it a lot.

You are exactly what I have been looking for

Everyone likes to feel loved but women like to feel loved with more drama and if told that they are the one that a man has been looking for, it literally sweeps them off their heels.

You are the ideal woman

Every woman aspires to be ideal and they need to be told that they are to reaffirm it. Ideal in the sense that they are different, they can manage everything they need to with elan and that they go through life successfully.

My world would never be as good, without you

Women like to know that they make a difference to someone’s life, to someone’s world. And its for this that they need to be told once in a way that without them things wouldn’t be as good.

You are an inspiration to me

It gives a woman great happiness to know that she has inspired the life of someone. Or has inspired them to do something better. So, telling her that she is an inspiration works as a great compliment.

I wish more women were like you

By this compliment, you are basically telling a woman that she sets a perfect example for others and this acts as a great compliment for her.

You are a woman of talents

Telling a woman she is talented is another compliment that works well because they love knowing / being told that they have gifts!

You bring out the best in me

A woman loves knowing she brings the better side of people out and telling her so in a compliment is good.

Tips on How to Keep a Conversation Going

Add more points to your counterpart’s ones

During a conversation it is essential to keep talking and expanding the conversation. This can happen if you as a speaker keep adding more points to what you are saying and also to that what your partner is saying. In order to do this you need to be alert during the conversation so that your mind can think up new things to say while the other person speaks. This will help ensure that the conversation moves smoothly.

Be attentive

During a conversation you need to be attentive so that the other person feels like you are interested. If you aren’t attentive enough then the other person will eventually stop talking thus leaving you in a lurch. Be attentive also so that you can reply quickly or react to what your counterpart is saying.

Lead the conversation towards interesting topics

If you having a conversation with someone and you feel that the conversation is going nowhere or is boring then it may hit the pause button soon, unless you take the initiative to lure the conversation by changing the subject and leading it toward an interesting topic. You need learn how to do this properly because you don’t want the change to be too sudden and abrupt either.

Keep passing comments throughout the conversation

While you are having a conversation with someone it is important to keep passing comments while the person is talking so that there can be a level of continuity to the talk. For instance, if the person is talking about their trip to Switzerland, keep saying things like, Oh really? That’s’ wonderful.

Learn to ask questions

If you ask a question, the other person is obliged to answer it. SO, during a conversation, ask as many questions as you can but obviously not too many because you will come across as annoying then! The key lies in asking the “right” questions at the right time.

Contribute to the conversation

No one likes to feel like they are talking to themselves. So when you are in a conversation with someone you need to contribute equally to the conversation too by talking about relevant matters suited to the subject and tone of the conversation.

Initiate interactive banter

During a conversation, you need to get the other person to talk to you as much as they can. This helps avoid road blocks during the talk. It is therefore important to initiate banter. For instance, if someone seems to be hitting the pause button on the conversation, jerk them awake by suddenly picking up any random topic, even something as simple as, “Oh I didn’t notice, your shirt is so smart, where did you get it from?”

Don’t let the other person end the conversation

If you aren’t prepared for an end then don’t give the other person a chance to end the conversation. Its simple, all you need to do is just get the other person to keep talking. Talk about random things, things that give the other person a chance to keep speaking.

Use references

While talking to someone, use a lot of references to give the person more time to think and react. For instance, if you say, “But Alice was thinking of getting it from …. instead”, the person will have a reason to think and say something back thus ensuring that the conversation doesn’t suddenly just stop…

Let your body language help to continue the talking

If you look away while the person is talking or if you keep checking your mobile for a text then the other person will feel that you don’t care and will stop talking. The sudden stop will result in an awkward silence thereafter. The best thing you can do in this case is to let your body language help you by looking the person in the eye when they talk, by smiling when they say something funny… the idea is to find ways to keep the conversation going.