Employee Evaluation Strengths & Weaknesses

Sample checklist to evaluate a job interviewee or employee's stregth and weaknesses. This template may also be used as a simple guide to create sample phrases for a self evaluation of employee skills.

Overview of Strengths & Weaknesses

During an interview you may wish to ask the candidate to describe their strengths and weaknesses, in today's competitive employee market, employers are searching for hard working, trustworthy and dependable members of staff, this includes knowledge regarding the strengths and weaknesses of an individual.

Should this happen to you during an interview then do not be afraid to share your weaknesses, a simple answer of "I don't have any" could quite frankly go against you as nobody is perfect and all of us have a weakness of some kind, however, make sure you explain the steps taken to overcome them. This will also do you favours in terms of honesty and integrity.

Below is a an example of strengths and weaknesses which you would expect them to tell you about.

Strengths & Weaknesses Checklist

Interviewee Name___________________________________

Interviewer Name____________________________________

Job Title_____________________

Strengths

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Adaptive
Communicative
Consistent
Creative
Dependable
Effective
Efficient
Focussed
Leader
Motivated
Organized
Strategic
Teamwork
Visioned

Weaknesses

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Aggressive
Bossy
Debater
Hesitant
Impatient
Lazy
Mistrustful
Naive
Nervous
Reckless
Sensitive
Shy
Undisciplined
Unorganized

Signatures

Interviewer's Signature

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Date of Interview:

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Interviewee's Signature

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TEMPLATE
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There are some strengths and weaknesses which you expect to come up in an interview and perhaps those which you are less desired to accept, however, you may also want to work on particular weaknesses with an individual and build together on turning that around.