{"id":19664,"date":"2017-09-28T11:53:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/?page_id=19664"},"modified":"2024-07-29T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T16:41:25","slug":"negative-experiences-or-weaknesses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/how-to-guides\/interview-guide\/questions\/negative-experiences-or-weaknesses\/","title":{"rendered":"What are questions about negative experiences or weaknesses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>You may be asked questions about past negative experiences or weaknesses. \u00a0Here, the interviewer is less interested in the outcome than in<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The process you went through<\/li>\n<li>The reasoning behind your actions<\/li>\n<li>The learning that came from the experience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Prepare for this question by reflecting on negative experiences in which you<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Achieved a positive outcome by using your knowledge, skills and experience<\/li>\n<li>Turned the situation around so that something positive came from it<\/li>\n<li>Drew on strengths to balance a weakness (strengths and weaknesses come in pairs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>Example<\/h6>\n<p>If the interviewer asks, \u201c<em>Tell me about a time you made a bad decision<\/em>,\u201d identify an example where, even though the decision was bad,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You were able to pull something positive out of the situation<\/li>\n<li>You learned from the decision and identified how you would handle it differently in the future<\/li>\n<li>You achieved an outcome where the decision had only a minor impact \u2014 and you learned from the experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"cta\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/how-to-guides\/interview-guide\/questions\/questions-you-might-ask\/\">What questions might you ask an interviewer?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may be asked questions about past negative experiences or weaknesses. \u00a0Here, the interviewer is less interested in the outcome than in The process you went through The reasoning behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8275,"featured_media":0,"parent":19653,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19664","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19664"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41128,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19664\/revisions\/41128"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}