how to answer "what is your greatest weakness"

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The creator shares a common interview question about greatest weakness and then reveals how she uses the Sprout app to quickly tailor her resume and cover letter for job applications. The interviewer is impressed by her efficiency and schedules an interview.

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1Introduces the difficult interview question.
2Shares her personal weakness of not asking for help.
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how to answer "what is your greatest weakness" So what would you say is your greatest weakness? this question is so difficult 😥 I would say my greatest weakness is probably that I have quite a hard time asking for help. I tend to try to figure things out myself, and I get quite discouraged when I have to ask supposed to do. But I've been trying to improve my communication skills and learn when the right time to loop a team member into the problem is, before it becomes a real roadblock. Okay, wow, I'm surprised you didn't work too hard or everyone says that 😩 something generic. Thanks. Um, I've. I've had a lot of answers since applying only actually took me i apply to everything so quick... about 20 minutes. 20 minutes? Oh, okay. Wow. Yeah, you had a pretty solid resume and cover omg he's impressed 🥺 letter for only 20 minutes of applying. Well, it was actually this website called sprout I used. You're able to swipe to apply to jobs with a tailored resume and it's so helpful!! cover letter. All the experience you saw is 100% mine, but I had some help refining it to your job listing. i'm glad he's impressed 🥺 Okay, well, i can appreciate the problem solving ability. So let's schedule your interview, uh, for next Tuesday @ noon. Perfect. I'll be there.

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So what would you say is your greatest weakness? this question is so difficult 😥 I would say my greatest weakness is probably that I have quite a hard time asking for help. I tend to try to figure things out myself, and I get quite discouraged when I have to ask supposed to do. But I've been trying to improve my communication skills and learn when the right time to loop a team member into the problem is, before it becomes a real roadblock. Okay, wow, I'm surprised you didn't work too hard or something generic. Thanks. Um, I've. I've had a lot of answers since applying only actually took me i apply to everything so quick... about 20 minutes. 20 minutes? Oh, okay. Wow. Yeah, you had a pretty solid resume and cover letter for only 20 minutes of applying. Well, it was actually this website called sprout I used. You're able to swipe to apply to jobs with a tailored resume and cover letter. All the experience you saw is 100% mine, but I had some help refining it to your job listing. Okay, well, i can appreciate the problem solving ability. So let's schedule your interview, uh, for next Tuesday @ noon. Perfect. I'll be there.