Hiring managers always assumed that I was a very detailed-oriented person. It turns out that this is not the case: I'm certainly a very analytic person, yet I always think "big picture", and everybody who knows me well would say that I am everything but detail-oriented.
Since I clearly lack this skill, I surround myself with truly detail-oriented people, in particular for filing tax forms and keeping track of financial transactions. I do have a number of strengths, being detailed-oriented is just not one of them:
Read details at http://www.analyticbridge.com/profiles/blogs/analytic-professionals-are-we-detailed-oriented-or-do-we-think-bi
Also is this different in UK than in USA? I spent 18 months in Cambridge UK, and 30 years in Belgium, before moving to US, so my point of view might be unusual by US standards, but not by European standards.
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