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Your Greatest Weakness: The dreaded question and how to answer

So far you’ve done everything perfectly: you came to a resume/cover letter workshop, had your resume critiqued at the CDC, submitted your resume on the BRIDGE (on time and following all the directions) and now you’ve landed the interview! You’ve researched the company, had a Mock Interview with the CDC, your suit is pressed and you are ready to go rock the interview. So now you are there, in the hot seat, and the dreaded question comes…”What is your greatest weakness?” CAREEREALISM has some great tips on how to go about answering everyones least favorite question in

4 Tips to Answering Tough Interview Questions Correctly

When Answering Interview Questions, Here’s RULE #1: Stay Positive…ALWAYS!

“What’s your greatest weakness” is your opportunity to shine. One way is to demonstrate that you are a positive person by nature. Everyone likes a person with a positive nature, right? Remember you are in the interview to make yourself desirable for hiring, so you might say, “I rarely sit there and think of myself in those terms, nevertheless, I do want to respond to your question” or something on those lines. Notice by the way I did not say “I rarely sit there and think of my weaknesses”. Okay, I take it back. Here’s a rule of thumb that always applies: Do not use or repeat negative terms, even if the interviewer throws it out there.

Read the other three other rules suggested by CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Rob Taub

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