What are Your Weaknesses?  Article From: Products Finishing, ,
from American Finishing Resources, LLC  Posted on: 3/1/2009
...and Other Idiotic Interview Questions  Interviewer: So, what
do you know about our company?  Candidate: Recites the key
points from the company Web site.  Interviewer: What are your
strengths?  Candidate: I’m a really good communicator and I work
well with all kinds of people.  Interviewer: What are your
weaknesses?  Candidate: I don’t take enough time for myself and
I have a tendency to bite off more than I can chew.  Management
Team Discussion: “I think he’s a good guy.” “Me too.” “Let’s
make him an offer” “Let’s.”  Come on, people. Do you really
think the interviewee can’t come up with acceptable answers to
these pathetic little questions? Do you think that maybe,
somewhere along the line, somebody might have tipped the
candidate off that you might ask her what his or her weaknesses
are?  In my 15 years on executive management teams I have
participated in interviews of 300 or 400 c