This is a tough question because it’s a more
clever and subtle way to get you to admit to a weakness. You can’t dodge it by
pretending you’ve never been criticized. Everybody has been. Yet it can be quite damaging to start
admitting potential faults and failures that you’d just as soon leave buried.
This question
is also intended to probe how well you accept criticism and direction.
BEST
ANSWERS: Begin by emphasizing the
extremely positive feedback you’ve gotten throughout your career and (if it’s
true) that your performance reviews have been uniformly excellent.
Of course, no
one is perfect and you always welcome suggestions on how to improve your
performance. Then, give an example of a not-too-damaging learning experience
from early in your career and relate the ways this lesson has since helped you. This demonstrates that you learned from the
experience and the lesson is now one of the strongest breastplates in your suit
of armor.
If you are
pressed for a criticism from a recent position, choose something fairly trivial
that in no way is essential to your successful performance. Add that you’ve learned from this, too, and
over the past several years/months, it’s no longer an area of concern because
you now make it a regular practice to…etc.
Another way
to answer this question would be to describe your intention to broaden your
master of an area of growing importance in your field. For example, this might
be a computer program you’ve been meaning to sit down and learn… a new
management technique you’ve read about…or perhaps attending a seminar on some
cutting-edge branch of your profession.
Again, the
key is to focus on something not essential to your brilliant performance but
which adds yet another dimension to your already impressive knowledge base.
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