How do you turn a negative into a positive? When you are preparing for your job interview, you will spend a lot of time creating answers to some of the more difficult interview questions and being able to turn a negative into a positive is a skill that you need to master.
The Actual Opinion Is The Least Important Part Of Your Answer
The interview question that asks you what you think your biggest enemy would say about you actually has less to do with your enemy and more to do with the way you feel that people perceive you. When you develop the answer to this question, you do not want to include any background on the person who likes you the least because the hiring manager does not care about that person. What the hiring manager cares about is the perception you are trying to create with others.
The first step to turning a negative into a positive is to take the emphasis off the negative and keep the focus on the positive. That means that you offer absolutely no background information on the person who likes you the least and stay focused on your attempt to turn a negative into a positive.
What Does The Hiring Manager Want To Hear?
How do you turn a negative into a positive when it comes to what the person who likes you least thinks about you? The easiest way is to take something positive and make it sound like it could be negative. For example, you could say that the person who likes you the least would say that you are annoying, which could be translated to mean that you are persistent. In this instance, being persistent is a good thing that could annoy someone who doesn't like you.
The hiring manager wants to hear you talk about something that you do that angers people who are perceived to be your competition. How would someone in your office perceive you if the two of you were trying for the same promotion? Your best traits will be the ones that grate on the nerves of your competition and that is what you want to highlight in your answer.
Be Direct In Offering Your Answer
The best way to handle this sort of question is a one or two sentence answer that gets right to the point. For example, an answer such as "the person who likes me least would probably say that I always have an answer for every question" is acceptable because it shows that you are always prepared with the proper information.
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