Interview Skills 3

Interview Skills

What are your weaknesses?

Please note that while stating your weaknesses in the interview you should

Ø define your weakness a little tactfully so that your weakness becomes a strength for an employer.   

Ø Even if the weakness start on a negative note must end on a positive note.

Suggested Answers

Ø I think that I get too much involved in my work that at times I find it difficult to strike a balance between my personal and professional life or in other words I do not get sufficient time to socialize with my family or friends. I know work is my weakness and trying to live a balanced life.

Ø My weakness is that I strive hard to achieve perfection in anything that I take charge of. Bringing perfection in my work sometimes has a counter impact on my work completion speed. Since I’ve realized my mistake so I’m not very perfection oriented now and this helps me to deliver work within set time frames. 

Ø My weakness is that I hate unprofessional attitude of people sometimes. By unprofessional attitude I mean that people who waste company’s time, money or resources. When I observe people doing it, I become upset and want to guide people to maintain their professional ethics.

Ø My weakness was that I was too detailed oriented i.e. I used to get deep into everything came across my way. I’ve realized my mistake now and I’m able to overcome it by not getting too much involved into anything and everything.

Ø I think my weakness that I take time building my trust on people I’m not very much familiar with. This has both merits and demerits with it. The merit is that people who are not genuine cannot that an undue advantage of mine and the demerit is people who are genuine might feel upset sometimes.

Ø I think my weakness is that I take my mistakes whether big or small, too seriously. As a result I become restless until I solve it. Although taking our mistakes seriously is a good thing but I should not feel upset about it. I know it’s my mistake and I’m trying to overcome it.

Ø My weakness was that I was too self-dependent while working and avoided asking for help from others. Now I’ve realized the importance of team work and have started working well in a team.

Ø My weakness is that sometimes I cannot do multi-tasking so perfectly. I give better results while working in a focused manner.

Now I’ve realized that for multi-tasking we need to be more attentive and experienced. As my experience will grow I’m sure I would be able to overcome my shortcoming easily.

Ø Curiosity is my weakness. I’m always keen on knowing more about everything that I come across in my life. My curious nature is sometimes not liked by people. I think I’ve realized it and I’m trying to reduce my curiosity where it is not really needed.

Ø  Sometimes I feel that my helpful nature becomes a problem for me. I try to offer help without people asking for it. That makes people take me for granted. I’ve realized this and now I’ve started offering help only when people ask for it.