Interview Question: What are your weaknesses?

Reprinted courtesy of TheCareerNews.com
HOPKINTON, MA — Unskilled interviewers frequently ask candidates “What are your weaknesses?” Conventional interview advice recommends you highlight a weakness like “I’m a perfectionist” and turn it into a positive.
Interviewers are not fooled. If you are asked this question, highlight a skill that you wish to improve upon and (most importantly) describe what you are proactively doing to enhance your skill in this area. Interviewers don’t care what your weaknesses are. They want to see how you handle the question and what your answer indicates about you.

Every interview concludes with the interviewer asking if you have any questions. The worst thing to say is no. Having no questions prepared indicates you are not interested and not prepared. Interviewers are more impressed by the questions you ask than the selling points you try to make. Before each interview make a list of 5 questions you will ask, then ask them.
Article by Michael Neece, InterviewMastery.com, and reprinted from TheCareerNews.com. Get the latest breaking News, Tips and Tools for your job search, Free!