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How to answer the weakness question
Simon The Bunny • Blog 9
I was in a job interview, it was going well. Then the guy asked me, “What would you say is your greatest weakness?”
I looked at him in stunned silence.
“Well,” I began finally. “I think that’s pretty obvious. I mean, I’m a rabbit.”
“Yes, I realize that,” he said. “So that’s really not your weakness. That’s your species.”
“My species is my weakness,” I countered. “I mean, would you say it’s a rabbit’s world or a people’s world? Which would you rather be, a rabbit or a person?”
“A person,” he admitted. But he did not look pleased with me.
“I mean, I’m about nine inches tall. If you ask me to get a file from the top shelf, I’m buggered.”
Yes, I said “buggered” in an interview.
I didn’t get the job. I never should have told him my real weakness. Since then, whenever I’m on job interviews, I make up something bland: “Sometimes I’m too hard on myself,” or something like that.
I never bring up the rabbit thing. I mean, we’re both aware of it, how could we not be? But I don’t hang a lantern on it.
If you’re going in for an interview, and they hit you with this question, you don’t need to spotlight…
