[WATCH]: What are your weaknesses? & What is your greatest weakness? Tips to tough interview questions.

Winning approach to answering What are your weaknesses interview question. What is behind the question? Do they really expect us to come up with something real bad about us? Something, which will really disqualify us for the job? Definitely nobody is expecting that even though it happens time to time. 40% of people sincerely believe they have no weaknesses. That is the trap #1 to avoid. People who put themselves into that category have big time problem getting a good job. Trap #2 is a failure to come up with a fair answer. Lots of people would demonstrate certain sleaziness, they prefer to play games rather than to provide straightforward honest answer. The typical tricks used (and suggested to be used all over the Internet and in many books): – turning weaknesses into strengths (workaholic, have to learn how to relax: cannot stop working until the result is achieved) – Not answering the question (for example, talking about resolved weaknesses in the past, not the ones you have now) – talking about obvious things (I have an accent) Obviously at the time of job interview we should be talking about things, which are related to the position and the candidate performance. It is not about our hobbies or personal lives. Tell them that there are two types of weaknesses: – The ones we know about – The ones we are not aware of Knowledge is the power. If we know about specific weakness we are expected to be doing something to overcome that weakness. It is important to emphasize …