For me, it has to be "What is your greatest strength?" or "What are your weaknesses?"
For the first one, I have a tendency to be humble to a fault. I don't perceive myself to be the best at anything, or even remarkably good. Just adequate at many things. I feel most employers I have interviewed for are unimpressed by this response.
For number 2, I feel like all of my actual weaknesses are enough to eliminate from any job considerations. For my weaknesses, although I normally just bs something else, I am perpetually late (not late-late, but like 2-3 minutes daily) and I am not a people person . I feel like it is hard to bring up any of these things without the interviewer immediately sending some sort of body signal to me that I shouldn't have said what I said.
Does anyone have any tried and true work-arounds for these questions?
For the first one, I have a tendency to be humble to a fault. I don't perceive myself to be the best at anything, or even remarkably good. Just adequate at many things. I feel most employers I have interviewed for are unimpressed by this response.
For number 2, I feel like all of my actual weaknesses are enough to eliminate from any job considerations. For my weaknesses, although I normally just bs something else, I am perpetually late (not late-late, but like 2-3 minutes daily) and I am not a people person . I feel like it is hard to bring up any of these things without the interviewer immediately sending some sort of body signal to me that I shouldn't have said what I said.
Does anyone have any tried and true work-arounds for these questions?