I can answer the qualities i’m good at but i dont know what to say when they say what do you struggle with or what can you work on.
what do i say when the interviewer asks “what are some things you can work on?”
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I can answer the qualities i’m good at but i dont know what to say when they say what do you struggle with or what can you work on.
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Being very self critical but working more to be kind to yourself. They always like that one
This is a personal question only you can answer. If you understand your weaknesses/flaws, you can answer by turning them into opportunities for growth.
That question is a trap. Answer it with a joke. Look at the person who asked the question with a neutral expression and say that you need to work on your poker face.
Be honest to a degree, don’t say something critical to the role, but also not something silly like I’m a perfectionist.
Could be networking for example. I’d always suggest leaving it on a positive though for example. ‘I’d probably say Networking as I understand how important that can be for *Job related aspect*, what I’ve been doing to improve on this is *X action*. If you are ever asked for a weakness or something you can make better, then it looks a lot better to show you are being proactive about improving there rather than just saying it’s a weakness and leaving it at that. If you haven’t yet started to work on it then at least say what you are going to do in order to better it.
That is such a baiting question.
Tell her some bullshit like “I care too much about work” or “I try to hard that I over work myself”.
“Answering questions like that one”
Depends. I strive to be a better person, but I dont see how the question is relevant to the job. Do you mean personal life? Or do you mean proffesional setting?
And we take it from there. …or not haha.
I just say “ I have nothing to improve on because I’m perfect”
Woman here, but I do hiring: don’t answer ‘I care too much’ or something like that, which is entirely disingenuous. Weak answer. Also, don’t offer up things that look like personality flaws: those won’t be fixed by the role, and suggest you’ll be a staff member that might need a lot of reassurance / create work.
Give something that you can actually improve, and will actually improve if you get the role: do your research beforehand, try to find out what software that job or that corporation uses. Saying ‘I haven’t used Jira in a professional context’ or ‘I don’t know how to use the banking software that XYZ uses’ or ‘I haven’t actually operated a forklift in a working environment since I was licenced’ highlights that you’ve looked into the role, you know what the expectation will be…and it’s already a given that you’ll learn that as part of the job.