How to Answer: What is your greatest weakness? What are you doing to improve it?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for an Optometrist job interview.
41. What is your greatest weakness? What are you doing to improve it?
How to Answer
When answering an interview question about your greatest weakness, you always want to choose a weakness that will not prevent you from being chosen for the position but is relevant to optometry. You want to answer honestly, but choose a weakness that you have improved upon or are improving on. Give an example of what you identify as a weakness and explain the steps you have taken to make that weakness a strength. Always end with how the weakness turned into something positive.
Written by Krista Wenz on August 29th, 2021
Answer Example
"My greatest weakness is being a perfectionist. I want all of my patients to have the best treatment possible. I feel let down and can be hard on myself if a prescribed treatment is not as effective as planned. It does not happen often, but the few times it has, I was really discouraged and wondered what I could have done differently. However, I have come to realize that I am still treating my patients the best I can and that some things are out of my control even when I have done my best."
Written by Krista Wenz on August 29th, 2021