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Interviewer: Describe to me if you could, your weaknesses please.
Gwen: Hmm, no.
David: I can't, (seems can't remember right now), I guess one exam tags I’m a little bit perfectionist.
David: You wanna know exactly what went through my head? What was I supposed to do?! Tell him that I am an office nag, that I’m not a quickest decision-maker, ya, that gives me the job real quick!
Gwen: This is not what I am saying you should've done. But you came across like somebody is trying to hide something! So what did you do? You use your perfectionism as weakness, and that's such a Cliché (stereotyped expression, 陈词滥调). You know it compromises your credibility.
David: Ok, was I supposed to do this?
David: My weaknesses are, oh man, I am worrisome, tirelessly nag, I’m completely indecisive. I consistently needed to be pat on my back to remind myself that I am on a half bet.
Gwen: No, no, that was honest, yeah, but harmful. How about this?
David: Well, sometime I might ask a lot of questions before a new project, you know, maybe come out as a bit nag, but that's only because I wanted to make sure I understand everything complete beforehand. You know its upside where I'm sure we have all the facts straight.
Gwen: See the difference? When you are aware of your own value, and you're confident professionally, you'll never afraid of telling people about a real weakness. You don't need to hide, but you certainly don't need to expose yourself in order different person to like you. You simply state the fact of life showing that you are aware of your weak points, but thrive to improve them.
David: Yeah that does make sense.
Gwen: Did he ask you to describe a failure or a professional mishap?
David: No.
Gwen: When I applied my job, my interview did. It’s a common enough question.
David: But that’s just defensive, you know, it’s so obvious that you wanted a failure. I would have told him that I can’t remember.
Gwen: Ah, really! You would be wrong to do so, you know.
David: Oh yes, what did you say?
Gwen: You wanna know what I said.
David: Yeah.
Gwen: I don’t know, think about it just a second. Oh yeah, I remember.
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Gwen: I can recall an instant when I was too harsh in an employee. She made a real blender, and I overacted. Things weren’t the same between us for quite a while, and it did harm our working relationship. You know she is actually a pretty good employee. And with respect, I realized that I was too hard on her. But we worked things out in the end, and I did handle similar situations differently since then.
David: Wow! You came out even better than you would otherwise. Somehow you came out even more powerful by talking about mishandling a situation, you rocks.
Gwen: Thank you! I agree. You see, the impression that my interview got on me was that I was the woman who was A. confident, B. able to admitted fault and corrected, and C. trustworthy.
David: Trustworthy. Got ya!
Gwen: Indeed, nobody is above making mistakes. And those who try to pass themselves as error-free, just doesn’t inspire trust. You know, there is no reason why the world wants to ambush you. I must note he is not a bad guy, so why not trust his ability to form a positive opinion on you, even though you may have made mistakes in the past. That’s what I did.
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You know what discouraged me?
Is it that I’m incredibly bright and trying to steal your moments?
No, but yeah, that too. But what you said about the interview, not being such a bad guy…
Oh no, I inherently said, why?
Because I think I might have been xxyyzz??,
Oh yeah, how so?
Well, after I came in, I noticed he was having a conversation over the phone right? He noticed me and told me to take a seat. Then he just kept talking for about 10 minutes until he finally finished. Then he just started interview without so much in excuses or an apology, I was a bit upset! And part of that bad story, I really disliked him. This guy is cold, he is distant, and he gave me an impression that he already knew all the rest to know about me.
But now?
Now I think he perhaps is not such a bad guy after all. You know, I had an influen, I mean, why would him?
Precisely, he’s just the man doing his job, same as you. What sort of rude to structuring, Is there a way he server his self-defense mechanism. But hey, he would be a completely different sort of person, something like this.
Hey David, hi, pleasure to meet you! Take a seat, take a seat.
Thank you!
Well then?
That would make it much easier to open up to him. Friendly interviewer like this, that creates positive atmosphere. Am I right? This guy…
But if I read you correctly, I shouldn’t have opened up too much to be over chump.
Because it doesn’t mean that he is taking immediately your shine either, and so…
And so I should treat both warm interviewer and cold interviewer the same earnestly, confidently and respectfully.
Spots on!
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