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Answer the questions everyone dreads: weakness, five years, why this job

The three questions people practise least and fumble most. Get honest, specific answers that don't sound rehearsed.

Updated 17 Oct 2026

The prompt · ChatGPT

Help me answer three tricky interview questions.

The job and employer: [title, company, paste the ad if you can]
What attracts me to it: [specific things]
A real weakness I'm working on: [e.g. I put off difficult conversations]
What I've done about it: [steps]
Where I'd like to be in a few years: [honestly]

Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers.

Then:
1. "What's your biggest weakness?": a 40-second answer with the weakness, what I'm doing about it and proof it's working.
2. "Where do you see yourself in five years?": an answer that's ambitious but fits this job.
3. "Why do you want this job?": an answer with two reasons about them and one about me.
4. For each, one thing not to say and why.

Sound like a person, not a script. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts, dates or results. UK English.

Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.

A short example

Fill the blanks, then paste. title, company, paste the ad if you can: a short note you already have. specific things: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.

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