How to Talk About Your Weaknesses - Sensible media webinar

Date

Thursday 10 Nov 2022

Time

01:00 - 02:00

Description:

Steve Dalton explains how to handle the job interview's trickiest questions and prepare good answers about weaknesses and failures.

Although candidates hate answering, employers keep asking about negatives: What are your weaknesses? Or, tell me about a time when you failed. According to Sensible Media research, you have a 50% chance of facing one of these questions when applying for a role. Employers like to see which candidates can handle these tricky questions and answer candidly. What they don’t want - paradoxically - is for candidates to talk themselves down. Happily, preparing good - and honest - answers is much easier than you might think. In this webinar, Steve Dalton, author of the 2-Hour Job Search and The Job Closer will explain: - Why employers keep asking these questions - What kind of response they are actually looking for - Why textbook answers don’t work (note to all the “perfectionists” out there) - How to quickly construct authentic answers about both failures and weaknesses - How to answer the other most common “gotcha” questions - Why these questions matter less than the “soft” questions that kick off most interviews. The key to answering all these questions is to prepare the right kind of achievement stories before the interview. In this webinar, Steve will explain his CAR (Challenge-Action-Result) formula and show how we can all create good stories AND adapt them to address negative, as well as positive, situations.