Comments on: Job Interview Question: What’s Your Biggest Weakness?

By: Mohammed Abid

Mohammed Abid — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:48:30 +0000

I am in shipping and logistics field (foreign trade) my experience is 14yrs when qestion asked what is ur weaknesses i could not find riht word to describe please hel pme ti give few tips

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:33:38 +0000

First of all, this is a dumb question asked by someone with poor interview skills. Because for one, they will never get an honest response, or two, they will get an honest response that has nothing to do with the job, i.e “I am a poor bowler”

What the interviewer should ask instead is a series of questions like, “if hired, what aspect about the position do you think you will need to improve on” “What would you need assistance with from fellow employees to get used to this position?” and maybe even, “What kind of obstacles have you encountered in this field and what did you learn from them?”

If you give them more ways to answer you instead of just flat out, “What makes you bad?” you will have your question answered, and know more about the person.

If you are asked this question at an interview, beware… you might not want to work for a company that have employees that do an incompetent screening process.

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[...] Free the Drones: Job Interview Question: What’s Your Biggest Weakness? “With this one I’m going to start with what you shouldn’t do, because that’s most important: 1) Don’t list a strength instead of a weakness. ‘I’m such a workaholic that I’d probably be at your office working 5 hours of unpaid overtime a day.’… 2) Don’t tell them a major weakness that might actually cost you the job. ‘I have a drinking problem, and I don’t come to work on time.’” Wednesday, December 6th, 2006Comments [...]