How to Answer: What is your greatest weakness?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for an Advocate Health Care job interview.
6. What is your greatest weakness?
How to Answer
The interviewer wants to know your greatest weakness to see if you are humble enough to admit you have a fault. They then want to see what steps you are taking to improve your weakness and turn it into a strength. Be sure you identify a weakness that is not critical for the role you are interviewing for but is still work-related.
1st Answer Example
"I have identified a work-related weakness that I am actively working to improve. I have trouble remembering people's names when I first meet them, and I am working to change that. I enrolled in an adult education course last week that teaches name association. The instructor is a psychologist who guarantees that his method will greatly improve my ability to remember 95% of people's names the first time I meet them. So far, I already see a great improvement and feel this will become a strength by the time I finish the course next week."
2nd Answer Example
"My greatest weakness is developing PowerPoint presentations. I understand it is not a requirement for this role, but I would like to work in a teaching capacity in the future and understand I need to improve this skill. I signed up for a Udemy class online that is a basic PowerPoint presentation course. Once I complete this course, I know I will feel more comfortable with this skill and plan on taking the intermediate and advanced courses in the future."