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By Jane Chin, Ph.D. of Jane Chin Associates on Nov 19 2007 8:57AM
 
"My greatest weakness? Working too hard!"
 
Is working too hard your greatest weakness? Is unbridled optimism your greatest strength? Right… you - and every other interviewee - may be tempted to pull this one because you believe this to be the “right” answer that makes you sound good to a question meant to root out your weaknesses.

Maybe you DO work too hard. Supply at least 3 concrete examples from your past experience that prove what you stated was true - and include the negative consequences this has caused.

Contrary to what some of us may believe, interviewers are not out to get us and interviews aren’t always rigged to smoke out our mistakes (just the lies). Most of the time, interviewers are genuinely interested in how you think and what you have to say and who you actually are.

 
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