Hi! I had a job interview and everything was going well, but I got stuck on the question about my weaknesses. If I tell the full truth, I feel like I’ll never get hired. But if I hide the negative...

As a college instructor who sometimes taught employment skill classes, I would tell students to use some of their strengths as the foundation for... weaknesses in that --- any strength taken too far, becomes a weakness. As pointed out above: Strength - team player willing to take on taskes/weakness - sometimes take on more than I should. But what I have learned to do is prioritize and evaluate my time management before accepting new tasks. Another example: As a team player i am able to forge strong relationships with others, but sometimes people see me as open so they end up sharing personal information and spend time talking with me. I have learned to be both open and yet create enough of a boundary that I don't become too involved with people. Take any strength, carry it to an extreme and it becomes a weakness, but always add how you've learned not to fall into that trap. more