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What weakness have caused you difficulty?

What weakness have caused you difficulty?

What personal weakness have caused you the greatest difficulty in your job?
We all have weaknesses and interviewer wants to know what are your weaknesses which cause you problems and affect your work performance. Be watchful of job critical weakness.
Tell about a weakness and show how it affected your performance. Show what initiatives and actions you took along the way to overcome the challenge. Show the progress.
Do's
• Tell about a successful project completion and how something bothered you
• Mention how you took support from colleagues, team members or boss to overcome the problem
• At a later date you enrolled yourself in a course to learn the skill
Don'ts
• I am perfect and I don't have weakness
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Few ways to mitigate these biases are · Learn to recognize the bias · Use slow, effortful and logical thinking (System 2) · Avoid fast, automatic and effortless thinking (System 1) · Avoid negotiations which are thrust upon when not ready · Learn through use of stories, examples, exercises · Bring an outsider perspective