What’s your weakness? It’s another maligned, tongue-tying trick question on the interview agenda. Be prepared in case it comes up. Although the question is hackneyed by now, you still have to say something in your favor. Are you prone to lack of attention to detail, lateness and disorganization as an employee? Don’t say those things!

Better to consider something that arguably can be a positive or negative, though it sounds so humbly positive when coming from you. Issues like delegating: you don’t pass the buck on a job and yet you are not a control freak because you turned that weakness around. You’ve learned how to delegate functions and duties because you weighed everyone’s strengths, learned to gain and give trust and balanced them with your own strengths and succeeded on a team!

Or, if the job minutia, so very important as you are aware, interferes with the heart of your job, you can talk about your determination to overcome it—how you focused, drew up a strategy, compartmentalized, and were ultimately triumphant in giving premier customer service while efficiently attending to the record-keeping to keep the business going.

Whatever you say, make sure you give an example of how you turned what would have been problematic into something that made you an asset and helped the company thrive.   Accentuate the positive and weave a favorable spin.

One more thing: whatever you say to the question, “What is Your Weakness?” don’t say you don’t know or that you don’t have any weaknesses!

-Written by thehardworkersays