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What is your greatest weakness? The definitive list of the many kinds of interviewer you will meet in Hell

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"As the article says, the employer needs to avoid anyone who is applying solely because they're desperate for a job."

I'm not sure about this. There can be several cases where someone does need a job badly and is also quite capable of doing the work involved. That someone is applying because they need a job doesn't automatically mean they lack the ability to do it properly. For example, someone who took time off to deal with an emergency which has also depleted their savings could be very desperate for an income stream, but that situation could also happen to any one of us given a sufficiently bad emergency. On another level, anyone getting their first position in a field will have faced some difficulty proving their qualifications without citing experience, and they could be very interested in finding a position, any position, so they can prove their abilities as a professional. Yet everyone here who has a job at one point didn't have any job experience but still had skills.

As an interviewee, if you're desperate for a job, hide it. Many interviewers will follow this quote faithfully. To interviewers, I suggest you become the exception to that rule.

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