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What Does the "Greatest Weakness" Questions Really Tell You?
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Saxon Marsden Huggins
What Does the “Greatest Weakness” Question Really Tell You?
One of the most popular questions to ask job candidates at an interview is the greatest weakness
question.
There are a few variations, such as:
• What is your biggest...
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What Does the “Greatest Weakness” Question Really Tell You?
One of the most popular questions to ask job candidates at an interview is the greatest weakness
question.
There are a few variations, such as:
• What is your biggest weakness?
• What is your fatal flaw?
• What do you need to work on?
But the basic idea is that you are asking potential employees to tell you something bad about
themselves.
It’s one of the classic interview questions that is designed to make people think on
the fly and to discover more about the candidate.
What Makes a Bad Answer?
The worst way a candidate can answer is to provide you with a real weakness.
Great employees
are expected to have confidence in their abilities and to think on their feet.
If nothing else, a real
flaw that may affect their ability to do their job also shows they do not know how to interview,
because working professionals know that this question isn’t there to invite applicants to share
actual bad things about th
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