真诚请教：essay要求写自己weaknesses应该写哪些方面呢？

Gendong

真诚请教：essay要求写自己weaknesses应该写哪些方面呢？

ziye210

我就是把自己的弱点写了出来。这种问题似乎没有什么“应该”，每个人都是不同的。

dove_hp

Weakness 是个比较Tricky的question, 所以很多人都会写那种擦边球的weakness. 比较： too detail oriented; get my hands on too many tasks 等等。这些weakness 比较safe，但是有比较俗套。
就象ziye210说的那样，其实可以把自己的弱点说出来。写得时候可以说有的时候，会有人说我有＊＊的缺点，我意识到这是缺点，已经怎么样在改进了。当然你也可以Defend你自己，说这个缺点有的时候也回serve you well.

我当时在准备的时候，就对我自己的情况，挑了个比较不一样的弱点写，我说I was told that i could talk too much sometimes.
然后写，在中国的culture 环境里，这是比较blunt的。所以，当我了解别人对我有这样的看法后，我在改进，让自己成为一个good listener. 三思而后言。

然后我又 defend myself，说 the reason i talk a lot is because I'm not afraid of expressing my views. (在美国人眼中，敢说并不是件坏事)，

最后，又说，besides, being talkative makes me a very social person, which helps me with my career too.

Gendong

真诚感谢楼上两位！！！

cannedpineapple

I am of the opposite view. The more you try to explain your weaknesses, the more it shows a lack of self-confidence, and a lack of maturity.

Everyone has weaknesses. Not everyone has self-confidence and maturity.

elaineQ

I think the main point to not about what your weakness is, but how you improve yourself and conquer your problem. The MBA admission is trying to evaluate your maturity, your business savvy, your self awareness and what steps you take to improve yourself and turn weakness around. You shouldn't put too much focus on explaining or cover up your weakness. Your focus is what effort you make to improve yourself. You can definitely say a true weakness in this case, for example, you can say you are not good at English, however, make sure to use examples to demonstrate that you took extra steps in life to learn and self improve your English skills. But everyone's case is different, so you have to write your own story. That also makes the story appear more believable to the audience.

But make sure you don't say weakness that has severe personal flaw. For example, do not say you are lacking business ethic or you are a selfish person...etc. Because these things would make you leave a very bad first impression to the admission. No matter how hard you try to convince your MBA admission officer, they would think you are not suitable to their program and lack of judgement.

cannedpineapple

Most importantly, be sure to answer the question. If the question only asks for what your weakness is, then don't tell them 'here is what my weakness is, and here's what I've done to work on it.' Rather, spend the time to show them how you came to understand that it is a weakness. The earlier latter (wrong) answer at best shows that you can't answer questions and that you've wasted ink better used on other issues, and at worst shows that you're finding excuses.

On the other hand, if they ask you 'what have you done to overcome your weaknesses?', then tell them just that.

I also think that saying even that you are 'lacking in business ethic' is not a big problem. Do you really just mean that 'you'll do anything to get something done', and that that's a huge problem because you've made some mistakes in the past, and you have the following painful example to show for it? If so, that shows tremendous personal growth. Some people still stubbornly refuse to admit that it's a problem- the fact that you have, means that you're showing maturity.

Again, everyone makes mistakes, and everyone has weaknesses. The fact that you have highlighted something as a weakness means that you can now improve (although, again, don't waste ink telling how you've improved unless they ask for it). How many applicants will actually dare to say that they lack business ethics, for instance? That kind of self-awareness and honesty could really make you stand out as a truly outstanding applicant.

sss4262

真有营养呀。

dominique_cp

学习.....

Landream

学习了，顶！