Thank you Beverley for sharing your experience. At some point of time, we are all guilty of the weakness of wanting to get the results and often find the process to be tedious. Yet, when one is aware of this aspect, it is easier to play to one’s strengths in a team situation and let a more process-driven colleague steer us towards successful project completion.

This is a question that can stump the best of us and given that the interviewer also knows the same techniques and answers that interviewees are being coached to give, it makes more sense to be human and show an authentic weakness which you were aware of and have overcome. It helps the candidate to come across as being proactive. Given that the corporate world is a hectic fast paced one, this is an added bonus for the prospective employer. Thanks for sharing your observations, Delia.

Thank you Shawn, glad you appreciated the tips on the interview question. I’m not quite sure how well stating one’s partiality for chocolate would work for this interview question. It might give the impression that you are being cheeky since the focus of the interviewer is to discover more about you as a person. Having said that, I love chocolates too!