What are Your Weaknesses?

Choices for responding to weakness question:

Give a negative that's really a positive:

• "I am sometimes impatient, which drives me to work excessively."
• "If I start on a project, I sometimes forget to go to lunch."
• "Since I'm such a perfectionist, I sometimes find it hard to delegate because I’m concerned others won't do the job as well as I can."

Caution: The perfectionist response is overused.

Give a negative that is really inconsequential and has little to do with how well you would perform the job:

• "I am not a good speller, so I keep a dictionary handy."

More choices for responding to weakness question:

• Simply reassure the interviewer that you know of no weaknesses that would stand in the way of your performing this job.
• Reveal a trait that once was a weakness, but explain how you overcame it and learned from it.