Why should we hire you?

My weakness? I CARE TOO MUCH! *weep*.

If that's a crime, go ahead and don't hire me! If it's wrong to care about other people and (especially) the Company, I don't want to be right!
 
The weaknesses question can be a tough one. I am sure that most employers have heard all of the canned answers of "I push myself too hard," or "I am too much of a perfectionist." The challenge is to answer the question honestly without discouraging them from hiring you.
 
Hire me because eventually everyone at your company will strive to be like me. Im that awesome and influential.​
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My biggest weakness are spiders and scorpions. As long as they dont get into the cockpit, we re all good.​
 
SeanD said:
Hire me because eventually everyone at your company will strive to be like me. Im that awesome and influential.

My biggest weakness are spiders and scorpions. As long as they dont get into the cockpit, we re all good.
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My weakness as well. I preface my aviation story with another story: About 3 weeks into my relationship with my current fiance I was downstairs watching football and she was upstairs working on a paper. She screamed and I ran upstairs to check on her. A spider had crawled up her wall, maybe the size of a quarter, half dollar, or dinner plate (though her memory of the spider is a lot smaller). I was still in the mode of trying to act tough around her, so I took off my sandal to kill this demon. It jumped at me. Jumped. I ran, screaming like a girl, tripped and rolled all the way down the stairs.

Since then it has always been a joke about what would I do if a spider attacked me while flying. It was a joke for 6 years until fate turned it into a nightmare.

I was asked to fly a T-28 with a friend of mine down to San Antonio. I was taking off 12L at KSAT. As I added power a small yellowish spider began slowly dropping down from the cowling towards my hand. He landed on my flying hand and wandered slowly, pacing before the bite. Once we cleared 1,000 AGL I asked my friend to take control. He assured me that I was doing fine. To which I responded "no, I need you to take control right now". He did. And I killed the devil on my hand.

I have had a student kick left rudder in a left engine out VMC demo, a student go incipient at midnight, and a lot more you could imagine after instructing for 2 years and the spider is still my scariest moment of flying.
 
I always figured if a company wants to know why they should hire you, highlight the positive ongoing relationship with your past employers.
 
I bring a bold new approach to realizing synergies and cooperative problem solving in a dynamic team environment.
 
I use to ask that question because I had no idea what I was doing. Hiring people used to be the most painful, dreaded, most incompetent job I ever performed. In my case, my main reason for asking it was because someone suggested it and I was trying to fill time and make it look like I knew what I was doing. It was only useful as a test of the applicant's self-control to see if they could refrain from saying "you have no idea what you're doing here, do you?"

I eventually worked out a new hiring system that eliminated the need to demonstrate my own ignorance during the interview process. It's a snap for me now, with no more stupid test questions like that. My ignorance no longer as apparent until after I hire them.
 
We are really spoiled with aviation interviews. For a lot of desk jobs they interview about 8-15 for one position. Even if you're lucky enough to get an interview and do everything perfect and they liked you, odds are that there were at least 2 other guys out of the 15 that also impressed them. I had about 5 desk interviews before I finally got hired and probably only because I knew the VP of ops. As far as the airlines I'm 2 for 2 with no internal recs. You pretty much have the job unless you give them a reason not to hire you, at least in the regionals. I know some of the legacy airlines are a little more picky, especially Hawaiian.
 
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