What Are Your Greatest Weaknesses + 5 Answer Examples

What Are Your Greatest Weaknesses and Weaknesses Answer Examples. What are your weaknesses? is the most hated job interview question. You probably wonder how to discuss weaknesses nowadays in 2020, in this video I share clear guidelines to help you with an interview response, and give you full weaknesses answers and responses to use while replying to "what is your weakness?" interview question.
What are your greatest weaknesses question is also asked as:
- What would your manager or colleagues describe as your biggest weakness?
- Which tasks or duties do you struggle with the most?
- Which difficulties and issues have arisen in your current role?
- Is there any area of your skill set that you feel still needs work?
NEVER say you don’t have any weaknesses or development areas. The impact of such answer is the same as saying as that you don’t have the ability to learn and to grow:

Four Steps formula to answer to your "weaknesses" related questions:
1. Analyze your development areas
It should be a weakness related to your professional competencies and skills.
2. Don’t try to disguise a strength as a weakness
I work too hard... or I am a perfectionist... These are ridiculous because as a recruiter you hear them every day.
3. Be honest but don’t raise any red flags
Giving an honest answer is really important here. If you make something up, you might not be able to handle all the follow-up questions.
4. Explain the measures you took to correct this skill
First part of your answer should reflect that you detected this weakness. The second part is how you had actively been working on it.

All the examples provided can be easily be adapted to your profile. There is also a bonus "weakness example" for candidates without professional experience, for university or college students.


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Help and guidance for job interviews with and without job experience, for experienced professionals and project managers, recent graduates or students, adaptable generic examples. Learn to sell yourself during the job interviews, the key is knowing why are you the best fit for the role, your strengths and your weaknesses, and being honest. EMMOTION by Marat is designed to inspire you to be the best you in different aspects of your life, including career and professional identity.

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[myemmotion]

What do you think is YOUR WEAKNESS? :)

[kelliwillis]

Talking about my flaws used to make me feel ashamed of my mistakes and guilty about my inadequacies, so this question was a turning point in every interview. My attitude became, 'I'm a screw-up, I don't deserve this interview, and I'm wasting this person's time, ' so I hoped for the chance to answer other questions before this one. With your advice, I think I can improve the way I answer this question and the impact it has on my attitude. So thanks again.

[sebastiandurgan]

I would say my biggest weakness is being introverted I am fine with customers, but not my colleagues and some people I meet so much. One thing I hate right now, is socialising and mixing with my work friends out of work. I get really anxious and just want to leave as soon as I arrive if invited out. Or make an excuse that I am busy or something. I really enjoy your videos Marat

[rolandbioc]

"Tell me about yourself" is the most I struggle about in job interviews :(

[kenyafadel]

Great advice! This is such an important topic to cover. It's difficult for most people to talk about their negative traits, but this is a very common interview question. It's so important to be prepared with a sincere weakness and the way you're working to improve.

[micahwill]

I really hate interviews however, after seeing your YouTube channel. I organised myself in the end I had 2 different offers in, one just a few hours after the interview. So thank you for all your help and advice. I will be referring anyone else who is looking for a job to you and to your videos.

[lionelwuckert]

a friend of mine said she got this question and answered, "I really don't want to work anymore, but I have a kid in college." The recruiter actually laughed and said, "I get it." She didn't get the job however.

[janiyarenner]

I have grown to learn and develop my improved communication skills over the span of my middle school years until now while experiencing times when I am speaking with strangers or even larger groups of people. Now I feel as if I still have very minor problems with communication, such as minor stuttering but I feel like I can learn to fix it.

[hanoush]

Nice video, I liked

Good job 👍🏻 my friend

[geovannibeatty]

You're 100% correct, preparation and time spent answering any and every possible question may be the different between getting the job or not.

[charlenestanton]

My weakness is that I’m a real “workaholic” yeah, oh it’s really being a “workaholic”. You are amazing. I used all your tips and passed my first interview. keep up the good work

[biplabpodder]

Could you please give us a simple example . Why should we hire you ? I am still struggling for this answer .

[emiliacofer]

Thanks for this video Marat. I have always had trouble figuring out how to answer this question properly because I thought weaknesses was a personality trait and a strength in disguise. But you have said that it is not so this helps me to shift my focus to think of examples. The ones you mentioned help a lot to think about situations to frame my answer properly.

[PHM]

As a creative individual, organizational skills is an area I am actively working at improving.

[daviddeparis]

Just rewatched this before my Skype interview its been so helpful not many youtubers provide actual examples and especially the ones that suits my weaknesses. thank you for your effort and for sharing this with us

[howardgoodwin]

You do a great job of focusing on an authentic approach - saying something that truly represents yourself, however focusing on ways you can show that you are working to improve it. Cheers!

[kashyapgupta]

Hi Marat I am a new subscriber!
I really love your all videos and helps me a lots to improve my social profile as well in my practical life...

[franklinhubbard]

I wish I had discovered your videos BEFORE I interviewed this week! They are very helpful and offer practical advice and tips that would have greatly helped me during my interviews. In addition, they are very well done - great job!

[macialtenwerth]

I love the way you encourage the viewers a lot. Thank you so much for your ultimately useful videos. Love to see more of your videos in the field.

[positivethinking]

Great video, you know what you are talking about.
Thanks for the examples too