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How to answer "What is your greatest weakness?"
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#13I often response with 'my greatest weakness is finding my weaknesses'. Though I also regularly answer the 'what will you be doing in 5 years' with 'in 5 years I plan to know what I'll be doing in 5 years'.
How often and regularly do you have interviews?
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#14"Girls are my greatest weakness. So am I for them. wink " Be honest, that's it. They will figure out if you are a fit in the team sooner or later anyway.
Playing the brogrammer card might work to your advantage, depending on the interviewer.
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#15What my brain actually understands: "Please try and fail to tell us why we should not hire you, in such a way that we can pretend to be fooled."
My greatest weakness? I hesitate between the temptation to spell out this translation to the face of my potential employer, and not having the balls to actually do so.
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#16"Girls are my greatest weakness. So am I for them. wink " Be honest, that's it. They will figure out if you are a fit in the team sooner or later anyway.
I don't think they really care to know whether you are lying or not. People ask this question because they want to put you in a tricky situation and see how you react.
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#17I kind of like this question because it fairly allows me to ask something just as difficult back. For instance when it is my turn to ask them questions I could say, "Since I have answered my greatest weakness, I think it only fair to ask: What is the worst part about working here? " Hopefully one would be comfortable enough to ask that question anyway. And hopefully their answer will be just as thoughtful.
And why not? It's a fair question. A seasoned manager will be able to answer that without blinking. "Some people think cubicles suck". "Open environment does not work for all". "This is not the place for someone that does not want to be under pressure to deliver". Easy to answer.
Why would it be uncomfortable to ask? It's dangerous to ask, though. If you ask it in a way that you come through as a smug, wanna-be-clever son of a bitch then the job interview is over.
So it's more of a danger to the one doing the asking unless he/she has good emotional intelligence. It's a fair question to ask.
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#18"I get irritated when people ask me stupid questions."
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#19I often response with 'my greatest weakness is finding my weaknesses'. Though I also regularly answer the 'what will you be doing in 5 years' with 'in 5 years I plan to know what I'll be doing in 5 years'.
Your often response is what I think mine is for real. Until I am challenged, I have blind-spots. All the ones that I think would be truthful come off as a canned response, and all the thoughtful responses I think of would be considered long-winded babbling.
I wish the article would go into how to shift the question/answer to make it meaningful. I don't think I will read a book on the off-chance it satisfies this.
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#20I often response with 'my greatest weakness is finding my weaknesses'. Though I also regularly answer the 'what will you be doing in 5 years' with 'in 5 years I plan to know what I'll be doing in 5 years'.
"In five years, I see myself celebrating having worked 5 years for your company."