Job interviews are an unpleasant chore that we all need to go through to get the role of our dreams. It’s easy enough to talk about why you want the job and why you’re the best person to do it.

But there is one question that everyone dreads and is most likely to trip us all up: What’s your biggest weakness?

A jobhunter took to Reddit to pose the horrible question to see how other people had answered and was soon inundated with responses. Among the 1,600 comments were people’s own solutions to a question that requires an example that makes you look confident but not arrogant as well as honest, but not too honest that they don’t want to hire you. MsLT answered the question, saying, “What about something like ‘I have trouble delegating tasks sometimes.’ I like to do things myself to ensure they’re done to my personal standards, but it is something I’m working on.”

Another user, Bumpkinsworth, said, “My wife gave me a good one that kind of compiles all of this:

“I take failure a bit too hard sometimes. Expanding on that, you can elaborate as to how that pushes you to work harder so that you won’t make the same mistake twice. Worked well for my last interview.”

If you want to add a little humor to your interview, which can ultimately be risky, try following jumper34017’s advice.

“Remain silent, and pull an index card out of your pocket that says ‘I over-prepare.’”

Making the interviewer laugh probably doubles your chances of being hired. Another Redditer also used humor to win over the interviewers, saying, “I had one laugh with the response, ‘my biggest weakness is not fully knowing my weaknesses all the time.’”

“They chuckled, a few days later I was offered the job.”

Another shared her clever way around the trick question, advising people to say, “I’m overly critical of my work.” This, she says, “gives off the impression you’re a hard worker, doesn’t affect anyone else or your ability to do the job, and makes it seem like you actually care about what you do.”

为了得到梦寐以求的工作，面试是必须经历的一份苦差。谈论为什么想做这份工作以及为什么你是最佳人选很容易。

但是，我们都害怕而又很可能被难住的问题是：你最大的缺点是什么？

为了看看其他人如何回答这个恐怖的问题，一名求职者将问题发在了红迪网上，很快收到了大量回复。该问题需要你用一个例子让自己看起来自信但不自大，诚实但不要坦诚得让他们不想聘用你。在1600条评论中，人们对此提出了自己的解决方案。

MsLT回答：“说‘我有时很难委派任务’怎么样？我喜欢自己完成工作以确保结果符合我的标准，但是我正在克服这个问题。”

另外一名用户Bumpkinsworth 称，他的妻子给了一个回答此类问题的好答案：

“我有时把失败看的太重。你可以借此展开，详细解释这如何推动你更努力工作，让你不再犯同样的错误。这招似乎在我上次的面试中很管用。”

在面试中玩点幽默可能很冒险，如果你真想这么做，试试jumper34017的建议。

“保持沉默，从口袋里拿出一张索引卡，然后说‘我准备过于充分’。”

让面试官大笑可能会让你被聘用的几率翻倍。另一位红迪网用户也用幽默感获得了面试官的认同。他说：“‘我最大的缺点是总不能充分认识我的缺点’，这个回答让我赢得笑声。”

“他们轻声一笑，几天后我得到了这份工作。”

另一名分享了她关于这个陷阱问题的聪明回答，她建议人们说“我对自己的工作过于挑剔”。她说：“这给人留下的印象是，你是一个努力工作的人，不涉及别人或者你的工作能力，而且看起来你真的非常关心自己的工作。”(Chinadaily.com.cn)

    Words to Learn 相关词汇

   【害怕】hàipà dread fear greatly, be in extreme apprehension of

    【轻声地笑】qīngshēng de xiào chuckle laugh softly or amusedly, usually with satisfaction