If you have a job interview weakness that is
preventing you form getting the dream jobs that you
want, do not despair. The fact that you know it puts
you well on the route to overcoming it once and for
all and even turning it into a strength. Often those
very things which start out as a weak point which
requires our attention to remedy wind up being the
thing we get better at due to that extra work, while
the areas which we naturally excel at suffer from a
lack of attention and growth. To put this work to your
benefit, it’s important to determine where your true
job interview weakness is to be found. This can be
very difficult. Job interviews don’t give candidates
much in the way of feedback. Typically we either get
the job or we do not.
After enough interviews, however, a job interview
weakness pattern may start to emerge. One key to
consider is if you came out of the job thinking that
you didn’t know enough about the job, or truly lacked
the experience that it required or if you came out of
the interview thinking that you knew what the
interviewer wanted, but simply didn’t convey it well
enough. These two different scenarios are clues to two
different kinds of job interview weaknesses. The first
difficulty is a sign that you don’t have the required
job knowledge and experience for the job. The second
problem is that you lack the theory and practice to
put together great job interview answers.
Job Interview Weakness Tips
For the first kind of job weakness, the lack of
interview-specific knowledge, the remedy is research.
You should go into the interview with about as much
knowledge as you can gather about the target job,
company, industry and field. A mark to aim for is the
same level of knowledge that someone currently working
in that target position might have. At the very least,
you should know what the day to day duties of the job
are, what the desired results for that job are, and
the characteristics that that target company desires
to see in their employees. This information can be
gathered by doing reading and research and by talking
to people who are familiar with that industry.
For the second kind of job interview weakness, the
trick is to learn how to more convincingly and
completely answer interview questions. A good way to
pack a lot of relevant information into the interview
answer is with the use of examples and dramatizations.
If the interviewer asks about your leadership skills,
don’t just tell him or her about your thoughts and
feelings on leadership. Give an example of a time when
you took leadership and achieved positive results.
This story should contain the elements of situation,
actions and results, and the more accurately you can
make all three of these elements match the elements
found at the target job the better. Ideally, you would
like for the interviewer to feel that you are
describing your performance and success at the target
job.
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