What is your Weakness? | Best Answer (from former CEO)

hey everyone today I'm gonna give you the best answer to the job interview question what is your weakness okay this is a very common and popular job interview question and it is the king of trick questions designed for the interviewer to be able to get the dirt on you now this question has many forms and one of the most popular is what is your greatest weakness now regardless of the form it's all the same question and so we always give the same answer now in order to understand what's a good answer here we first need to briefly talk about the interview process from the recruiters perspective okay now recruiters have the job of starting with sometimes over a hundred candidates and then gradually whittling that number down till they're left with one candidate that they select they do this by eliminating candidates so especially in the beginning during their first round of interviews their focus is mainly going to be on eliminating candidates therefore they asked two types of questions one to see if you meet the requirements and two to see if they can eliminate you directly and this one what's your greatest weakness or what is your weakness or what are some of your weaknesses this is the most direct question they can ask you in this category okay now as I mentioned in my previous videos if you've been called in for a job interview that usually means that your resume looks okay but what they're trying to do at this point now is get the dirt on you now for recruiters interviewing 20 candidates and you know they have to eliminate 19 of them what could be easier than getting a sudden death elimination on most of them leaving the last three or so on which to go a bit deeper and that's sudden death elimination that's where this question comes in now allow me to translate this question for you I don't really know you at all but if there was an obvious reason to eliminate you from the running so I don't have to get to know you what would that reason be okay so they ask you that and you say tough one well let's see I'm addicted to alcohol gambling and dumb fighting I have a lightning-quick Bert and I tend to get really violent when I don't get my way and the recruiter is thinking all right well thank you very much for your time we really do appreciate you coming in next okay so the goal should be to give them a polite and appropriate answer but not give them any dirt on you now here is the best answer I've ever heard for this question tell me what is your greatest weakness well see I have very high standards and unfortunately not everybody shares those standards which can sometimes lead to a bit of frustration what I found is now with a little bit of good communication I can smooth that over and it never ends up really ever being a problem that's the best answer I've ever heard anyone say you see what that person did they technically answered the question but they used it as a platform to talk about their strengths it makes a great template to use to frame your answer I do this which is good but it can lead to this which is bad but then I do this which is good and I completely fix the problem so that's how I would recommend you answer this question make sure you do some preparation to come up with an answer that's accurate for you that follows this structure remember don't simply hand them a reason to eliminate you please let me know in the comments what your experiences have been with this question whether they've gone well or not so well it's all good the more we share the more we learn don't forget to Like subscribe and hit the bell button and I will definitely be doing more videos in this series on getting hired so this will ensure that you don't miss any and check out my patreon page for even more personal coaching stuff as always I'm Bill the company's expert thank you so much for being here and watching my videos you're awesome [Music] [Music]

Channel: The Companies Expert

Views: 892,059

Rating: 4.9346418 out of 5

Keywords: weaknesses, strengths and weaknesses, what are your weaknesses, weakness interview question, what is your greatest weakness, interview weaknesses examples, what is your biggest weakness, What's your greatest weakness, what is your greatest weakness interview question, worst trait, what is your worst trait, Tell me about your greatest failing, What is your Weakness?, Best answer, weakness, former CEO, CEO, Companies, Expert, answer, best

Id: yzWo8EXsfTs

Length: 4min 12sec (252 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 07 2019