ASK THE HEADHUNTER A Top 10 Stupid Interview Question: What’s your biggest weakness?

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A Top 10 Stupid Interview Question: What's your biggest weakness?

In the May 19, 2020 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter a reader grapples with the biggest weakness and with trick questions. Question It just happened again. An interviewer asked me one of those trick questions. "What is your biggest weakness?" I actually researched this one. There are all kinds of recommended answers you can memorize. It's also true that it might be an honest question to get you to talk about yourself, or it might be a trick and they're looking for some particular kind of answer. I stopped trying to psych this out. But I would like to know what

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Take it from a skills standpoint - stuff that you don't want to learn, ever, would be where you got a weakness and need shoring up. It can also be the thing you most want to learn about so it won't be a weakness. If the interviewer presses for a non-technical area, then consider your work habits/styles. Make it a question of whether or not you should work from home or in the office.