Drawing on our own work and on other sources, we discuss some of the strengths and weaknesses of interviewing, especially for work in the sociology of culture.
Candidates regularly discuss their strengths and hide weaknesses in interviews, and they even engage in extensive image creation to the point of telling fictional stories to showcase their strengths.
"How to Present Your Weaknesses During Interviews" was first published in November of 1998.
Moore was the biggest culprit, talking over Rivron's review of the morning's papers but Nicolson suffered a similar weakness when interviewing.
When you have that kind of humility people want to help you, and it's a strength to ask for help, not a weakness". Our interviews revealed women who readily gave credit to those who contributed to their success.
Rather than offering "perfectionism" as your greatest weakness in an interview, should you describe a mistake and the correction that followed?
The weaknesses of computer interviewing are that it generates false-positive responses, is not accepted by a minority of patients, is unable to detect nonverbal behavior, and requires changes in work flow.
(See the earlier article "How to Present Your Weakness During the Interview").
However, currently available measures are challenged by resistance to change, psychometric weaknesses, and for interview-based assessments, dependence upon the presence of an informant.
"What are your weaknesses?" is a purposeful interview question.
