Most difficult question in a job interview
September 15, 2009 by admin
Filed under Job Interview
Every job interview is difficult, and every question asked, presents a challenge. However, there are certain questions that are considered to be more dangerous than others. One of them in particular is the most dangerous of all: ” What did you dislike in your previous job”? can also be asked as ”Why did you leave your previous job”? or even ”What are your weaknesses”?
When asking the above question in any of the above described ways, the interviewer wants to see:
1. What your flaws are and how you deal with them, if you admit them and if you at least try to overcome them. Perhaps you like to play the victim card and blame others for your mistakes.
2. How discreet you are. Whether you tend to badmouth your former colleagues and boss and whether you get thirsty for revenge when you get too hurt, enough to work for the competition even.
3. If you have the tendency of throwing in the towel and leave when things get tough, if you are able to work well under pressure, if you happen to be oversensitive to criticism, have panic attacks when a mistake happens, not knowing how to fix it, not even where to start…
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