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Also, needlessly highlighting your bad points and showing remorse over them would not impress the interview panel. Make sure you answer about these points keeping in mind the nature of your job role, and the industry that you would be working for. For instance, if you have applied for a Sales Intern position and implying that you like staying in your own world, that will deduct your points drastically.
Understanding the Purpose:
You must realise the logic behind asking this question. The employers want to find out if you have a certain level of awareness about self, if you are simply trying to gain sympathy or your weakness is genuine one. How did you overcome your weaknesses in the past as against letting them take a hold of you.
So, while speaking about your weaknesses, be careful that you don’t come out as a whiner. You must represent it in a manner that would still be a benefit for the company. Don’t try to portray yourself as a perfect person because as soon as you show such attitude, you will lose the impression.
Tips to remember while answering the question: What Are Your Weaknesses?
1. Choose your weaknesses carefully:
Selective and honest information about something that’s tough for you to do, and that which definitely won’t hurt your job, can be mentioned to the interview panel. The keyword here is: selective weakness.
2. Don’t glorify your flaws:
No one likes that. Especially in an interview if you brag about being a night creature who loves to work on video games, won’t be taken positively, so stay humble about them.
3. Stay Mindful:
Again, speaking about things you are bad at, in a mindfully and thoughtfully would help the interviewers look at you positively.
4. Explain with examples:
Always back up your instance of getting over your weakness, with an example. That helps the audience relate to your situation and understand it correctly.
Tips to sound genuine:
1. Choose your vocabulary carefully:
For example: instead of saying, ‘I have stage fear’, you may say ‘ With the kind of job I aspire to bag, I have joined a Public Speakers group where I volunteer to speak about various topics, that helps me share my ideas better, and I receive insights as well’. Pretty Simple.
2. Don’t expect sympathy:
Speak what is real. Beating around the bush just to elevate your weakness can have adverse effects.
3. Practice your points:
Before appearing for the interview, practice what you are going to say should such a question comes up. That will help you stay confident in interviews.
4. Understand the mindset of the interviewer:
Once you get an idea of the mental thought process of the audience, it would become better for you to answer them.
Make sure that you do not speak too much about your flaws, keep it concise and clear, all the while avoid relating them to the job. Try and move on by answering this question quickly, so you have more time answering questions of more importance.
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