How to tactfully answer "What is your weakness" in an interview?

Everyone wants to show their best in front of others, let alone in an interview. But often the interviewer will throw this question-what are your shortcomings? God, this question is so embarrassing. It is impossible not to answer, but isn't answering digging a hole for yourself? The common wrong answer is Aunt Jiang.

1. Turn advantages into disadvantages

There are always smart people who want to disguise their strengths as weaknesses, such as "I'm too perfectionist" and "My biggest weakness is that I'm too busy at work and don't take care of my family". ? Exo me? Are you sure you don't feel sick when you say these words? The interviewer is not stupid either. This routine is too fake. Although they are still smiling at you, their eyes are actually turned out! ? So the way to say advantages is too fake and hypocritical, PASS! Don't be too tactful in front of a battle-hardened interviewer.

2. Take being too honest as a virtue

Then let's answer honestly! I am always careless, and I like to forget things in my daily life! Baby, you applied for the administrative Committee! After giving you so much information, are you going to accidentally miss the important plans of the company one day? ? Therefore, sincerity also has a bottom line. Honestly, don't push too hard. When talking about your own shortcomings, try to avoid the shortcomings of three views and personality, because you may step on the taboo of this position if you are not careful.

3. Looking at it too far is an escape.

Play the edge ball, say something that has nothing to do with work, so there will always be no mistakes! Well ... my shortcoming is that I don't like vegetables! ? Hehe ... this classmate, are you sitting in the wrong seat? Go out and turn left at the brain hospital. Au Suivant! ? This is a job interview, not for you to chat on the bench downstairs in the community. Embodying professional quality is also one of the compulsory courses in the workplace ~

How painful! So how to answer this question! In fact, don't care too much about the answer itself. The interviewer asked this question, in fact, not to make things difficult for you, but to see the job seeker's self-awareness and communication ability in the face of embarrassment. A professional and experienced HR gave the following suggestions:

The narrative of the story brings the psychological distance closer.

Never use an abstract vocabulary or event representation to describe your shortcomings, because this will make HR unconsciously infer your personality traits, label them and induce stereotypes.

So what should we do? Put your shortcomings in a story with rich details. When there are many details such as the time, task background, pressure and difficulty of the incident, HR will evaluate it in combination with the situation and environmental factors at that time. At this time, no matter whether he thinks your behavior is appropriate or not, he will understand you from the heart.

Example 1

In my last job, I worked in XX, but when other colleagues were on leave or on a business trip, some of their jobs were temporarily assigned to me as agents. Moreover, I have a lot of work tasks, so the assignment of tasks will increase my workload and my working hours will be tight. In the end, although the task was completed and there were no major problems, I still made some small mistakes because I was not careful enough.

Example 2

During the internship, because I just entered the workplace, I don't know much about many problems in my work, and I am afraid of making mistakes in my work, so I want to do my work better. Therefore, I always like to consult my old colleagues or superiors, and make full preparations first, so I will be a little emboldened to act.

Example 3

I mainly do copywriting, but sometimes I need to design or typeset myself in my work. In my previous work, I realized my lack of design ability and learned relevant skills, but because of the low basic starting point, I still can't reach a more professional level.

Dialectically speaking, don't fill in words.

There is no distinction between good and bad personality, but if it is too extreme, it will appear extraordinary and become a real shortcoming. So the strategy is: find one's own advantage and focus on the degree of "too ... but not ..." (knocking on the blackboard). In fact, this is also a method of "packaging advantages into disadvantages", but it is not too hypocritical.

? Example 1

I need to plan everything in advance, and I will work according to my own project schedule, but this way of working makes me feel confident and have no anxiety when I do things. But if the goal of a task is too vague, or other members of my project team lack planning, it will make me unbearable, so sometimes it will be judged as too demanding or inflexible.

Example 2

I am a careful person, so I will also undertake the tasks of proofreading and data collation in my previous work. But I always feel that I lack strategic thinking and overall situation, and I can't look at the problem from the standpoint of managers. (PS: If you are applying for a management position, don't say that! )

Example 3

I prefer to organize my things more orderly, which is more convenient for my work. So the things on my desk are always in good order, but for my casual colleagues, they will think that I am too lifeless and give people a sense of distance.

In addition, it can also explain altruistic behavior, cognitive needs, achievement motivation and so on.

True self-exposure

Eliot, an American social psychologist, put forward the "error effect", that is, talented people who make small mistakes are more attractive. If you do well in the first half of the interview, exposing some of your shortcomings at this time will narrow the psychological distance with HR, increase your goodwill and make HR feel more real ~

Example 1

If you are a programmer, you can say that you are not good at public speaking, because this profession rarely requires you to host and speak.

Example 2

If your job doesn't require high interpersonal communication, you can say that you are slow to respond. When you first enter the company, you may have less communication with your colleagues except work topics.

Example 3

I am a person who needs a sense of accomplishment to motivate myself. When there are problems at work, I will feel a little hurt and sad inside, but it will not affect my work mood.

Self-exposure should be true and harmless, but when choosing small shortcomings, we must carefully study the job requirements and responsibilities in advance, and choose shortcomings that will not affect daily work.

Of course, after reading so much, you must internalize yourself before the interview and practice hard!

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