tell answer of what would u wish for if u had a superpower
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The superpower question focuses upon the quality the candidate identifies as their biggest personal asset. Also, it’s intended to encourage a response that isn’t formulaic. Finally, it invites you to focus upon the impact you could have on the organisation. Think of a superhero’s power: it is powerful because it is devastatingly effective.
In some ways, ‘If you were a superhero, what would your superpower be?’ is like any unusual interview question; it’s as much about how you answer as what you say. Can you think on your feet and come up with an articulate answer when faced with an unexpected question? If you can, regardless of the superpower you choose, you’ll create a good impression.
The typical skills and competencies employers look for may not seem to have much in common with superpowers. Miss Marvel saves the universe not because of her amazing team skills, time management or ability to prioritise; it’s because she has sheer superhuman endurance (and a sixth sense). However, you’ll still need to illustrate your superpower with an example drawn from your real-life experience.
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Pick your superpower
Are there any achievements you’re particularly proud of, or times when you had to overcome obstacles in order to succeed? Can you identify a particular characteristic that enabled you to do this? The superpower question invites you to single out a quality that has made it possible for you to achieve, and to give an example of a goal that you were able to reach as a result.
Our first tip is to choose a simple but strong and effective superpower, for example:
Endurance, strength or resilience. A superhero might run round the world six times; you could have shown your stamina in sports or expeditions, or by completing challenges in spite of adverse circumstances.
Observation.
Although you might not have X-ray eyes, you could have a good eye for detail and the ability to step back and analyse a situation, then respond to the evidence.
Speed. Efficiency is as valuable to an employer as the power of flight is to a superhero. The ability to manage your time is an important skill, as is the capacity to spot ways to improve processes and accomplish tasks more swiftly.
Agility.
Are you capable of being flexible and adaptable? Even if you don't have shapeshifting abilities, you may still be able to tackle new tasks and responsibilities in a way that will help your employer to thrive in a fast-changing business environment.
Sensitivity to what other people are thinking and feeling. You might not be able to read minds, but emotional intelligence is a useful skill in the workplace and recruiters will be impressed by evidence of it.
The power to influence your environment. Where a superhero might be capable of controlling the elements, you could be skilled at persuasion. Have you ever been successfully involved in campaigning or fundraising, or taken a leadership role?
Our second tip is to outline why your chosen superpower would be an advantage to the employer. For example, if you choose to talk about endurance, you could talk about areas of the employer’s work where this is particularly important. Perhaps the organisation has been involved in a particularly complex project or negotiation that required stamina and resilience from all involved.
Then use the STAR method – Situation, Task, Action, Result – to demonstrate where, when and how you’ve already used the superpower.
Example answer: the superpower of speed
‘My superpower is incredible speed so I would be the superhero Lightning. I know that the nature of your business means you respond very quickly to events so I think my superpower would be useful.
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Also including the power to control and limit my power to make sure my mind doesn’t go crazy because I am way too powerful. Also including the power to remove all drawbacks from putting infinite power & knowledge inside a limited human form and normal brain.
On the days I feel playing superhero, I’d limit myself to be Superman.
I’d know the answer to whatever I set my mind to know.
I could live forever and control time itself! Play golf with entire planets without any damage to those living on them. Or go so small I can enter inside quarks and surf the space-time foam at the Plank scale.
I could die if I wanted to, as often as I wanted to, and… for as long as I wanted to. Seems like a logical contradiction, sure. But, like, if I truly am Omnipotent, then I have the power to make my own existence not dependent on having a physical body in the first place. Or on having to follow any kind of logic whatsoeve