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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do actually have to coach people out of perfectionism at work because while we have to balance quality with speed demands at my job.  So you have to learn to live with imperfection because we simply don't have time to make everything immaculate.[/quote]

I rarely see someone who doesn’t let the great get in the way of the good. Way back in my grad school and law school days, professors routinely reminded us that we needed to develop the skill of knowing when enough is enough. It’s a common area of professional development. It’s not special and people who overthink and who are perfectionists have a lot of company.

If you say this in a job interview, it will make you sound so un self aware and professionally immature. I’d never give you a second look because you’d be a supervisor’s nightmare.

Also I’d never answer a question on my biggest weakness. I’d turn the question into something I want to talk about that highlights my skills or something valuable that I’ve learned, not my shortcomings. For example, I recently had a job interview and got asked a question like this. I pointed to a relevant area of law that had recently changed and said that when I get a case with those issues, I’d have to study the new law. I answered the question but I showed that I keep up with relevant issues in my field and that I recognized what I would need to do when that issue lands on my plate. [/quote]

Your biggest weakness is that…..law changes?  What?

I don’t think you answered that as well as you think you did.  [/quote]

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