Bonus #1 - How to Handle the Interview Weakness Question
February 28th, 2008An additional Interviewing show, originally covered on our weekly podcast …
Mark recently blogged about the crazy advice being given - by the Wall Street Journal! - about how to handle the perennial interviewing question, “Tell me about a weakness.” He was stunned by how wrong some of the suggestions were, as well as the implication that a clever interviewee could trick the interviewing manager into accepting a non-responsive answer. We think it’s funny how many folks think that “they” can fool “their” interviewer, but of course, if “they” were the one “interviewing”, why, “that would be different”.
Yeah right.
In this cast, we share one of the best interviewing answer templates you’ll ever hear. It’s simple, elegant, easy to deliver, and surprise, surprise: it directly answers the question.
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March 5th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Is there an RSS link for the slides for all of the Interviewing Series?
March 6th, 2008 at 12:52 am
David,
Yes. Please see the link in the shownotes of the Interviewing Series Introduction: http://www.manager-tools.com/2007/07/interviewing-series-overview/
Mike