Interviews: what is your greatest strength and weakness. #phd #postdoc #interview #jobinterview

This is one of the most commonly asked interview question, and I have been asking it for over 15 years. When people don't give boilerplate answers, this can be an opportunity to be self-reflective and stick out from the crowd. This is a question worth thinking about ahead of time....

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0:00 Introduction: answers fall into two broad categories
2:20 Suggestions: greatest weakness
4:36 Suggestions: greatest strength
6:38 Wrap-up

Matthias Rillig, professor of ecology at Freie Universität Berlin, chats about life in academia.

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