Talking About Strengths
What you're good at, with an example.
- Them
What would you say your main strength is?
- You
I'm good at breaking down difficult problems.
- Them
Can you give me a concrete example?
- You
Last year I rebuilt a system that kept crashing.
- Them
What was the result of that work?
- You
Crashes dropped by ninety percent in one month.
- Them
That's impressive. Did you do it alone?
- You
No, two colleagues worked on it with me.
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Words in this dialogue
- mainmost important; the main course
- strengthsomething you are good at
- goodof a high standard
- breakingtaking apart; damaging
- downalong; to a lower place
- difficulthard to do
- problemssomething that is wrong
- giveto hand over
- concretedefinite and specific
- exampleone thing that shows what others are like
- lastfinal; the one before this; to continue for a time
- yeartwelve months
- rebuiltpast form of rebuild
- systema set of parts working together
- keptpast form of keep
- crashingstopping working suddenly
- resultwhat comes out of something
- worka job; to function properly
- crashesstops working suddenly
- droppedfell; gave up
- ninetythe number 90
- percentout of every hundred
- monthone of the twelve parts of a year
- that'sshort for that is
- impressivedeserving admiration
- alonewith nobody else
- colleaguespeople you work with
- workeddid a job
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