| Many job seekers prepare a job search plan, which | | | | Weakness Question #2. - Please tell us about |
| includes specific steps and exacting considerations, | | | | workplace situations where your work was criticized? |
| such as industry specific resume formatting, quantifying | | | | Again, no one is perfect. Be honest. Be direct. Be |
| career successes, detailed and respectful job | | | | confident. Mention one example - which you prepare |
| references, and other thoughtful elements that help | | | | and practice in advance of the job interview - including |
| move the job search ahead double-time. Problem is, | | | | the part where you corrected the workplace issue |
| for many job seekers, even after all that preparation | | | | circumstances, and how you corrected them, and the |
| on positive career comments, they fail to consider how | | | | positive results that came from those changes. Don't |
| to address weaknesses in their own career. So when | | | | get too detailed here. Be brief, but to the point. |
| asked to explain about such things, job seeker | | | | Weakness Question #3. - What have you learned |
| responses often fail miserably. Consider the | | | | from your mistakes? |
| approaches below, to questions that deal with how | | | | A successful career is a matter of constant personal |
| you handle workplace failure. | | | | transformation, learning from one's workplace |
| Weakness Question #1. - Can you give an example, | | | | mistakes. Most job interviewers want to know that |
| from your last or current job, where you failed to meet | | | | you can bounce back from a job mistake, and |
| your assigned objective? | | | | become a better employee for the experience. |
| Just remember, when answering this question, | | | | Determine - again, before you attend a job interview - |
| everyone fails at something at some point in their | | | | a couple good examples that illustrate positive results |
| career. Don't try and hide that fact. Sometimes job | | | | and healthy workplace concepts that you learned |
| interviewers just want to know that you can honestly | | | | from workplace mistakes. Be specific, and brief. |
| report the truth when it's not flattering to you | | | | Employer prospects want to know how you handle |
| personally. Offer an example, that you prepare in | | | | adversity in your job. They want reassurance from |
| advance. Describe a key objective that carried | | | | your job interview answers that they can depend |
| obstacles which prevented your best performance. | | | | upon your job performance, even when things don't |
| But, do not make your explanation sound like an | | | | seem to go so well. Consider your answers to the |
| excuse. Use an example that expresses problems | | | | questions above and how employers may react to |
| beyond your control. Then follow that up with an | | | | them. Take time to prepare your answers in advance. |
| objective that almost failed, except at your suggestion, | | | | Say the words aloud, so they are not foreign to you |
| the mission-statement was amended to acknowledge | | | | when you have to say them in front of a job |
| standing, uncontrollable issues; changes which allowed | | | | interviewer. Your comfort with such answers may |
| the objectives to be met. | | | | move you fast ahead towards a job offer. |