How to tacke difficult questions during job interview

There are two questions which I found difficult to answer during interview and they are as follows:

1. What are your negative qualities?

Of course during interview you are selling yourself to the company and one of the basic principles in selling is you don't highlight the negative qualities of the products. The best thing to handle this is to translate the question, i.e.

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what is actually the interviewer after for? The answer is simple. He is actually not interested to know your negative traits but rather he is more interested on how do you cope up with your minus factors. Hence the best way to answer this question is to give him at least one negative quality of yours honestly and expound your answer by telling him how you are dealing with it. For example, tell him that coming on time is one of your weaknesses but you had already bought a very efficient alarm clock and that you haven't been late for the last, say 10 years, in coming to work.

2. Why did you leave your previous job or why do you want to leave your job?

Of course the answer is simple and straightforward i.e. you are no longer happy in it. But you don't have to just simply tell your interviewer this. For sure, he must already know it, lest you won't be applying for the job. What he actually wanted to know is that what you want to get on the job being offered which your current job cannot give you. Therefore your answer should focus more on what the job you are aiming for can offer which you couldn't get from your current job. For example you can say that you need more challenges or maybe you need to explore more on some other areas which your current job is not actually offering. Do not ever commit the mistake of defaming or telling negative about your current job because the message that you would be giving your interviewer is that, if he could not be happy in his current job, most likely he would not be in the job that we are offering.