Q 3 What are your greatest weaknesses?

What are your greatest weaknesses?  or What are your weaknesses? or We all have weaknesses. What are some of your major weaknesses?

TRAPS: Beware - this is an eliminator question, designed to shorten the candidate list. Any admission of a weakness or fault will earn you an “A” for honesty, but an “F” for the interview

PASSABLE ANSWER : Disguise a strength as a weakness. ( I Practice this in my interviews )

Example 1: “I sometimes push my people too hard. I like to work with a sense of urgency and everyone is not always on the same wavelength.”

Example 2 : At times I spend more time to get perfection

Example 3 This is not the time to confess all your problems nor to confidently say you have no weaknesses. The best way to handle this question is to mention personal weaknesses that are outside the job or a professional weakness that you have already improved upon. For example,


I have a real weakness for chocolate that tends to go right to my waist! I'm watching my calories carefully these days!" or "I've never been good with accounting. I'm glad this job doesn't involve accounting." Or "I have a tendency to take on too much on my own. I am working on this by delegating more."


However other side of the coin some of the HR experts say ,