What is your biggest weakness?

This is one of the important questions that you might face in an Interview. By this question interviewing officer will get to know how much you know about yourself. As human beings, we all have some weakness, and as an intelligent person, you must be aware of your weakness.

So how to answer?

First, it is important to know that your weakness must not be harmful or fundamentally against the company or the organization for which you are appearing in the interview. For example, you are going for Army Interview and you say that your biggest weakness is that you can’t work in a team, then your this reply will be fundamentally against as in Army you need to coordinate with others and work in a group. But if you say this in an interview for the post of the scientist then it might work in your favor, because it may happen that your mind best works when you are alone. Even if you want to say that you can’t work in a team then say it in a different way, one such way is that generally I face difficulty to work in a team but after getting adjusted then I go well with the team.

Many candidates answer this question after reading various books, website or friends’ advice and they say that their weakness is sweet, chocolates or I am a workaholic. Friends these diplomatic tactics are quite old and are almost outdated so better if you avoid them.

If you don’t know any of your weakness then you can say as of now I am not aware of any of my weakness but as an when I get to know that this particular thing is my weakness then I immediately start working on it to remove it.

But before saying that I have no weakness you must think 100 times, it is very rare that one doesn’t have any weakness.

If you are aware of your weakness then do tell that but more importantly also tell what you are doing to overcome that.

For example, if you are not having good handwriting then you can say that daily I am working 30 minutes on that. Another such example is that if your general knowledge is not good then you can say my general knowledge is not good but I have started regularly reading the newspaper to improve that. Knowing your weakness is a good thing but knowing it only and not working to overcome that is not good.

With a hope that this article would prove fruitful to your, we request you for your suggestions, opinions, and comments.