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» The Weakness Question
You're sitting in a conference room or office, face-to-face
with the person you most want to impress -- your prospective
boss. He or she asks, "What is your biggest weakness?" Yikes!
How do you answer a question like that?
The good news is that
it's a job interview, not a confessional. No one expects
you to demonize yourself in hopes of appearing
forthright. After all, you are selling yourself and you
want the interviewer to buy, not pass.
You could try stalling.
Think hard for a minute or two and answer something like "I can't really think of
any aspect of my personality that has compromised my performance
at work. All of my performance reviews have been positive
and I've never had any problems with past employers." The
problem with this approach, though, is that you run the
risk of appearing smug.
A better approach to take with the
weakness question is to answer it honestly in a way that
makes you look positive.
Try to come up with a problem or difficulty you had at
work a long time ago -- the further back, the better. Explain
how that one minor flaw affected your performance in a
way that enabled you to correct the problem and learn from
it. This will show your employer how you have learned from
a mistake.
" The classic "weakness" answers are those
where the weakness is strength in disguise," said
Jenn Schraut, Human Resources and Compensation Associate
at Salary.com. "But avoid the blatant, overused ones,
like, 'My problem is that I work too hard'," she said.
With
the weakness question, you'd better be prepared. If you
think of something on the spot, your example might
have flaws you don't have time to think about.
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