{"id":118,"date":"2017-05-20T15:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T15:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2020-10-30T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T05:11:33","slug":"how-to-answer-what-is-your-greatest-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/how-to-answer-what-is-your-greatest-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Answer \u201cWhat is your greatest weakness?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Why do you need to mention your weakness?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Formatting your resume to the point of precise yet professional is an art many fail to master.<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cvdragon.com\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cvDragon<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is an online resume making website that facilitates you to create such<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cvdragon.com\/Designs\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">resume formats<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Both Resume styles and quality content are equally important to impress the prospective recruiters.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/3-popular-resume-formats-will-attract-eyes-employer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Resume formats<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for both freshers and experienced candidates are made further desirable by adding critical personal details to intrigue the prospective employers. One such detail is mentioning <strong>&#8220;What is your greatest weakness?&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recruiters take the fact for granted that candidates won&#8217;t be a 100% honest about their weaknesses, but the way you disclose your weaknesses will show them the real you. It&#8217;ll get the recruiters past your nice, presentable interview facade and present to them what you&#8217;re really like to work with &#8211; the good, the bad and the ugly.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Keep in mind before answering the question.<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now to the issue at hand is, how to answer, <strong>&#8220;What is your greatest weakness?&#8221; <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you build <\/span><strong>cv online<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you heavily rely on tips provided by the<strong> online cv maker<\/strong> you&#8217;re using. You may also download \u00a0random resume, scavenge the internet for resume samples, refer to several online resume services .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may even directly hit Google with the question, &#8220;How to write a professional resume?&#8221; But bear in mind this thought; that irrespective of how many means you wield, revealing your greatest weakness to the recruiters will always stand up as the single most tricky challenge whilst building your resume. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is where you place your trust in your recruiters and show them the crack in your armor and gain their confidence in return. Nail this firmly and definitively, you bag the job; you mess this up and you&#8217;re back to square one.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>The desired way!<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many articles, <strong>online resume making websites<\/strong>, <strong>resume samples<\/strong> and <\/span><strong>cv templates <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">might suggest you, to turn a negative into a positive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Share a supposed weakness that is actually a desirable quality in an employee, for example, &#8216;I am too much of a perfectionist,&#8217; &#8216;I work too hard sometimes,&#8217; &#8216;I care too much about my work.&#8217; Well friend, I got news for you. Not good enough. It&#8217;s played out. Scrap it in the bin. The interviewer sees right through your pretentiousness. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now at the same time remember not to be too honest either, it&#8217;ll scare off the recruiters. For example &#8220;I have a hard time waking up early in the morning,&#8221; wrong again, no employer fancies a latecomer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The desired way is to try and find an authentic weakness, a minor and fixable one; careful though, \u00a0it must not flesh out to be a direct obstacle to the job at hand. For example, &#8220;I think one area I could work on is my delegation skill,&#8221; whilst you are applying for a junior-level employee role. Now as you see inefficiency in delegation does slow down the entire workflow, hence this is a genuine weakness. Your rescue here is that it can be fixed with sufficient management skill training course; moreover, delegation skill is not much of a requisite for a junior-level employee.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do you need to mention your weakness? Formatting your resume to the point of precise yet professional is an art many fail to master. cvDragon is an online resume making website that facilitates you to create such resume formats. 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