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Job Interview Answer: How Do You Plan to Overcome Your Weakness?

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When you are applying for an entry level job a common interview question asked as a follow up question to What is your greatness weakness? is "How do you plan to overcome your weakness?"

Here are sample interview answers which you can edit to fit your personal experiences and background:

One of my greatest strengths - and a weakness - is my passion for what I am doing. For example, while in college, I had a variety of courses at the same time and had more of an interest in one than the other. I sometimes caught myself paying more attention to one over the other which is apparent in the end results.

While it is great that I am so zealous about particular projects, I need to learn how to find that niche in projects that are not as appealing as well.

If employed, I will combat this by realizing that all of my assignments, regardless how into them I may be, are all part of a larger goal.

All of them help me grow professionally and contribute to the progress of a particular project and the company. Keeping this in mind, I will be able to turn this weakness into a positive.

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