{"id":122,"date":"2008-03-31T01:24:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T17:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/2008\/03\/31\/bep-90-adv-job-interviews-greatest-weakness\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T03:13:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T19:13:31","slug":"bep-90-adv-job-interviews-greatest-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/2008\/03\/31\/bep-90-adv-job-interviews-greatest-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"BEP 90 ADV (Transcript &#038; Exercises) &#8211; Job Interviews: Greatest Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our Business English Podcast series on job interviews, we look at another very common question you&#8217;ll likely be asked when interviewing for jobs in English: What is your greatest weakness?<\/p>\n<p>Talking about your weaknesses tests a unique skill: It investigates your ability to present a drawback as an advantage. Thus, the theme of this episode is <em>be positive<\/em>, and that&#8217;s the main point that we&#8217;ll be focusing on.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<script> function showhide(id){ \tif (document.getElementById){ \t\tobj = document.getElementById(id); \t\tif (obj.style.display == \"none\"){ \t\t\tobj.style.display = \"\"; \t\t} else { \t\t\tobj.style.display = \"none\"; \t\t} \t} } <\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/listening-quiz\/\">Listening Questions &#8211; Good Example:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide('294'); return(false);\"><strong>1) <\/strong> What does Sherry identify as her greatest weakness? <\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"294\" style=\"display: none\"> <font color=\"#ff0000\"> <strong> Sherry says she comes from a &#8220;non-traditional&#8221; background as she is a single mother. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide('295'); return(false);\"><strong>2) <\/strong> Did this weakness affect her GPA (exam scores)? How?   <\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"295\" style=\"display: none\"> <font color=\"#ff0000\"> <strong> Yes. For example, while doing my Master&#8217;s, she had to work part-time, which meant that she&#8217;s done part of her degree during night school. Being so busy has also had some impact on my GPA.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide('296'); return(false);\"><strong>3) <\/strong> Does Sherry explain the positive aspects of the weakness she describes?<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"296\" style=\"display: none\"> <font color=\"#ff0000\"> <strong> Yes. Being a single mother has taught her maturity and how to manage her time.  <\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" cellspacing=\"3\" height=\"299\" width=\"630\">\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"2\" scope=\"col\" height=\"32\">\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Premium Members <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\" width=\"421\">\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Online activities <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/aMember\/signup.php\" target=\"_blank\">(Members \/ Free Trial)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" width=\"66\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/podpress_trac\/web\/122\/0\/BEP090ADV-Greatest_Weakness.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/businessenglishpod.com\/images\/podcasts72.jpg\" alt=\"MP3 free download business English podcast lessons - workplace English training dialogs, examples phrases, explanations and ESL speaking practice\" height=\"56\" width=\"56\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td height=\"28\" width=\"135\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/podpress_trac\/web\/122\/0\/BEP090ADV-Greatest_Weakness.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td height=\"28\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/exercises\/BEP90QIZ.html\">Job Interviews &#8211; 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We&#8217;ll deal with another extremely common question. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s almost as challenging to answer as it is popular to ask. It requires you to think about possible problems with your working style and personality, and to give an answer that demonstrates professionalism and the ability to present your weakness as a strength. That&#8217;s right, you guessed it, the question is: What&#8217;s your greatest weakness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,31,19],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}