Interviewer: Thank you for coming, Mr Peters. Let's start with a classic question. What is your biggest weakness?
Peters: Oh. Well, I think I care too much.
Interviewer: That's a very common answer.
Peters: It's true! Last year my boss said "good job" and I cried in the toilet for forty minutes.
Interviewer: I see. Could you give another example?
Peters: My ex-wife says I never listen. She is a lawyer, and she was very convincing.
Interviewer: Mr Peters...
Peters: And I once sent an email to the whole company instead of my mother. It said I love her very much and that the soup was too salty.
Interviewer: Mr Peters, let me stop you. I appreciate your honesty, but this is a job interview, not a confession.
Peters: I'm sorry. I'm nervous. I'm answering as if it's therapy.
Interviewer: It's fine. Take a breath. Let's try again: what is your biggest weakness?
Peters: I sometimes share more information than necessary. I'm working on it, and I now check my emails twice before sending them.
Interviewer: Thank you. That was much better.
Fiction note: All people, places and events in this dialogue are fictional.