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How To Evaluate Answers To The Weakness Question - Part 3

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Management, Leadership, Strategy, Feedback, How-to, Skills, Advice, Development, Careers, Coaching, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Part 3 of our guidance on asking and evaluating the weakness question when interviewing candidates.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Manager Tools.

0:03.4

How to evaluate answers to the weakness question?

0:06.4

Part 3.

0:07.4

Here we go.

0:09.1

This cast answers these questions.

0:11.0

Why should I ask the weakness question in an interview? What are good answers to the weakness question in an interview?

0:16.0

What are bad answers to the weakness question in interview?

0:19.0

If you want answers these questions and more, keep listening.

0:22.0

Our number three bay. answers these questions and more. Keep listening.

0:26.6

Our number three bad answer, Dodgers. Yeah, and look, our first bad answer essentially is a form of a Dodge,

0:30.9

the idea that a strength, you know, I have too much strength, I'm too strong.

0:35.8

You know, there's not enough weight in this gym for me, I'm sorry.

0:39.8

You know, when you've interviewed as many people as I have, you see these answers and you just

0:45.8

want to almost take off the mask and say, really? Did you just do that? Did you?

0:50.2

Really?

0:51.2

This is like the typical political answer right where somebody

0:53.4

somebody gets asked a question and the answer has nothing it's nothing to do

0:58.5

with the question nothing yeah one of the classic dodges in politics is when you know, what do you think about this? Well, I think the real issue here is, oh, okay.

1:08.0

Apparently my question is not an issue, not real. There are all kinds of dodges, and there are so many of them, you can't even

1:15.8

hardly name them all, but basically they're all attempts to not answer the question.

1:21.3

One of my favorites is responding with a question. Hey Bob, tell me about

1:26.1

a weakness. Well Mark, why don't you start? Why don't you give me an example of weakness? I mean I got to tell you to me that such an egregious

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