“What is your greatest weakness?” and “What is your greatest strength?” are two of the Top 10 Stupid Interview Questions. They tell you more about the interviewer than your answers would tell about you. Such gratuitous queries reveal that the interviewer knows too little about the job to intelligently assess whether you can do it.
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What should you do when you’re asked such lame questions? Take control of the interview. Do it politely but firmly.
How to Say It
“I’d like to show you how I’d do this job, if you will permit me. If I can’t do that, then you shouldn’t hire me. So that I’m not wasting your time, will you please outline three key deliverables you’d like to see from a new hire? That is, if you hired me, what would you want me to do, fix, change, create, improve after three months on the job, then after six and 12 months? I’ll do my best to show and explain how I would do the work, so that you may accurately assess me.”
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019
To the Point with Stupid Questions at an Interview
Nick Corcodilos is awesome! He runs the Ask the Headhunter website. I just read this article - What do these interview questions mean? - and from that article, here are some quotes:
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