Job Hunt: Interview: 39 Behavioral Questions: Round # 05

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Here’s round #05 of job hunting / career advancement material behavioral questions.

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So here goes:

Attibutes	Questions
Teamwork/Collaboration	• Tell me about a time you needed to get two groups or people to work together effectively, who historically had never done so.
Teamwork/Collaboration	• What is the toughest group/team/department from which you have had to get cooperation? What were the obstacles? Why was it a tough group? What were the reactions of the group members?
Tolerance for Stress/Energy	• Tell me about a time you were knocked off balance on a project you were working on due to unexpected information or an unexpected event.
Adaptability	• Describe a major change that occurred in a job that you held. How did you adapt to this change?
Adaptability	• Describe a time when you felt that a planned change was inappropriate. What did you do? What were the results?
Adaptability	• Tell me about a time when you had to change your point of view or your plans to take in account new information or a change in priorities.
Analysis/Problem Assessment	• Describe the project or situation which best demonstrates your analytical abilities. What was your role?
Analysis/Problem Assessment	• Tell me about a time when someone came to you with a problem. What did you do?
Communication	• Give me an example of a complex political situation you were able to handle effectively and quietly; which, had you not handled it well, could have blown up.
Communication	• In selling an idea, it is sometimes useful to use metaphors, analogies, or stories to make your point. Give a recent example of when you were able to successfully do that.
Communication	• Tell me about a time when you needed to give feedback to an emotional or sensitive employee.
Communication	• Tell me about a time you had to deal with a coworker who was very upset.

Communication	• What are the most challenging documents you have prepared? Have you written proposals?
Customer Service Orientation	• Sooner or later we all have to deal with a customer who makes unreasonable demands. Think about a time when you had to handle unreasonable requests. What did you do?
Developing Organizational Talent	• Tell me about a time when you provided your direct reports or a team with the things they needed to motivate themselves to an extraordinary accomplishment.
Information Monitoring	• Describe a time where your patience in gathering information paid off.
Initiative	• Describe for me how you have “made your own luck”.
Initiative	• Give me an example of how you have taken control of your career.
Integrity	• Describe for me a time when you had to–tactfully but forcefully–say things that another person or group did not want to hear.
Integrity	• Others’ work ethics are sometimes in conflict with your own. Describe a time this happened to you. Were you able to work it out? How (or why not)? What did you learn form this experience? How have you applied that learning?
Interpersonal Skills/Influence	• Describe a situation in which you were able to use persuasion to successfully convince someone to see/do things your way. (NOTE: Make sure you find out what level the person was whom they convinced.)
Interpersonal Skills/Influence	• Describe a time when you were able to “read” another person effectively and, as a result, were able to adjust your actions to meet this person’s needs or values.
Interpersonal Skills/Influence	• Describe a time when you were able to convince a skeptical or resistant customer to purchase a project or utilize your services.
Interpersonal Skills/Influence	• Describe a time you were unable to sell your idea to a key person.
Interpersonal Skills/Influence	• Give me an example of an approach you used to sell an idea to an employee, peer, or someone higher in management.
Interpersonal Skills/Influence	• Some people are more difficult than others to get along with. Tell me about your least successful working relationship. Why do you think it was not a successful relationship?
Interpersonal Skills/Influence	• Tell me about a time that your ability to appropriately use empathy turned a situation around.
Judgment/Problem Solving	• Tell me about a situation that, if you had not acted immediately, could have turned into a major problem.
Leadership	• Tell me about a situation when you stood up for a decision you made even though it was unpopular.
Leadership	• Tell me about a time you felt you needed to be assertive in order to get what you felt you or your team deserved or needed.
Management	• Give me an example of a time you had to tell a direct report that you were dissatisfied with his work.
Management	• Tell us about a time when you had to reprimand an employee you supervised.
Planning & Organizing/Work Management	• Describe how you set your goals for last year and how you measured your work. Did you achieve your goals? If not, why not?
Planning & Organizing/Work Management	• Give me an example of a time you saw an opportunity to integrate two or more processes or procedures to make a more efficient and effective single process or procedure.
Planning & Organizing/Work Management	• Tell me about a situation when it was important for you to pay attention to details. How did you handle it?
Practical Learning	• Give me an example of where your understanding of your job contributed to solving a larger problem in the organization.
Teamwork/Collaboration	• Describe a project you were responsible for that required a lot of interaction with people over a long period of time.
Teamwork/Collaboration	• Give me an example of a time that you used one of your strengths to help another person or team succeed.
Teamwork/Collaboration	• Have you ever been a member of a group where two of the members did not work well together? What did you do to get them to do so?