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Here’s round #07 of job hunting / career advancement material behavioral questions.
I decided to mix it up a bit and go for the gusta with a BONUS 61 questions… for a grand total of 100 QUESTIONS! Crazy… see if you can easily get through this list, eh?!?
Give it a shot and leave your answers in the comment section!
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So here goes:
Job Hunt: Interview: 39 Behavioral Questions: Round # 07
| Attibutes | Questions |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Tell me about a time where, because you didn’t effectively build your team, you were not able to accomplish a task/project within specifications. What happened? What did you learn? What would you do differently if you had it to do over again? |
| Technical/Professional Knowledge | • What kinds of problems have you had coordinating technical projects? How did you solve them? |
| Tolerance for Stress/Energy | • Think about a time when you felt overwhelmed or stressed out. How did you handle it? |
| Tolerance for Stress/Energy | • We have all been asked on occasion to perform a task or accomplish a goal where the instructions we received were ambiguous. Tell me about a time when this happened to you and specifically what you did. |
| Work Standards | • We all get assignments we really don’t want to do. Give me an example of a time that happened to you and tell me how you motivated yourself to get it done. |
| Adaptability | • Give me an example of a time when a person’s cultural background affected your approach to a work situation. |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • In a current job task, what steps do you go through to ensure your decisions are correct/effective? |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • Some problems require developing a unique approach. Tell me about a time when you were able to develop a different problem-solving approach. |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • Tell me about the most complex or difficult information you have had to analyze. |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • We all have particular problems we enjoy/dislike solving. Tell me about a problem that you enjoyed solving (or disliked having to solve). What, in particular, do you enjoy/dislike about solving this kind of problem? |
| Coaching | • Give me an example of a time you were responsible for hiring and orienting a new employee. What did you do to help him learn the new job? What did you do to help him learn about the company? |
| Communication | • Describe a situation where you felt you had not communicated well. How did you correct the situation? |
| Communication | • Give me an example of a time when you were able to successfully communicate with another person, even when that individual may not have personally liked you, or vice versa. |
| Communication | • Give me an example of a time where, despite being tense or nervous, you were able to make a successful presentation to a higher level management group. |
| Communication | • How would you describe your presentation style? |
| Communication | • What kind of writing have you done? How do you prepare written communications? |
| Delegation of Authority & Responsibility | • Tell me about a time you encouraged your direct reports to be actively involved in solving problems related to their position rather than coming to you for the answers. |
| Delegation of Authority & Responsibility | • What was the biggest mistake you have had when delegating work? The biggest success? |
| Impact | • Tell me about a time you went the “extra mile” for a boss. Why did you do it? |
| Initiative | • Give me an example of a time you knew you had outgrown a position and it was time to move on. |
| Innovation | • What was the best idea that you came up with in your career? How did you apply it? |
| Integrity | • Give examples of how you have acted with integrity in your job/work relationship. |
| Integrity | • Give me an example of a specific occasion in which you conformed to a policy with which you did not agree. |
| Integrity | • Tell me about a time where you didn’t practice what you preach. |
| Integrity | • We are all faced with having to make a choice between two seemingly opposing things, both of which seem like the right decision. Tell me about a time you were in this situation. What did you do? Why did you choose that “right” action? |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Tell us about a time when you used facts and reason to persuade someone to accept your recommendation. |
| Judgment/Problem Solving | • Describe a recent unpopular decision you made and what the result was. |
| Judgment/Problem Solving | • What type of decisions do you make rapidly? What type of decisions take more time? Please provide examples. |
| Leadership | • Give me an example of a time of low morale where you were able to motivate another person or group to achieve something that they weren’t really motivated to achieve. |
| Leadership | • Tell me about a time where your ability to keep your eyes on the future proved to be a benefit to your organization/department/team. |
| Management | • Give me an example of a situation where you improved a work process. |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • Give me an example of a time you were unable to complete a project on schedule despite your best efforts. |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • We all have more on our plate than we have time to get done. Tell me about a time where your ability to accurately scope out time requirements for tasks and projects made you successful. |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • We have all faced situations where the resources we needed to be successful were not within our span of control. Tell me about a project or goal where this was true for you. |
| Practical Learning | • Describe a work situation that brought out the worst in you. Why did it bring out the worst in you? What did you learn? |
| Practical Learning | • Give me an example of something difficult you had to learn that you did end up learning. |
| Practical Learning | • Tell me about a time when you were able to treat a negative experience as a learning opportunity. |
| Quality Orientation/Attention to Detail | • Describe the most creative work-related project which you have carried out. |
| Risk Taking | • Describe a work-related risk you took, that in hindsight, you wish you had not taken. |
| Risk Taking | • Tell me about the greatest business risk you have taken. |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • At times, we must all deal with difficult people. This can be a challenge when it is someone with whom we need to develop a cooperative relationship. Tell me about a time you were successful in developing a cooperative relationship with a difficult person at work. |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Give me an example of a time where you needed to get people who have very different work styles to work cooperatively on a project. Were you successful? Why/why not? |
| Tenacity | • Tell me about a time you were given a goal by someone else that you believed would be impossible to attain.Click Here to Learn How to Answer These Questions and More |
| Tolerance for Stress/Energy | • Give an example of a situation where others were intense but you were able to maintain your composure. |
| Tolerance for Stress/Energy | • Tell us about some demanding situations in which you managed to remain calm and composed. |
| Adaptability | • Tell me about a time you led a change effort. |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • Describe for me a time when you were disappointed in your performance. |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • Give me an example of a time when you used your fact-finding skills to solve a problem. |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • Tell me about a stubborn or recurring problem you are facing in your current position. What have you done to solve it? |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • Tell me about the task or project that you were responsible for that best demonstrates your ability to analyze information. |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • We can sometimes identify a small problem and fix it before it becomes a major problem. Give me an example of how you have done this. |
| Communication | • Describe a situation where, after a presentation, you were faced with a hostile questioner. What did you do? What was the result? |
| Communication | • Describe the most significant written document, report or presentation which you had to complete. |
| Communication | • Give me an example of a time when a presentation you were making wasn’t working and you were able to switch tactics to make it work. How did you know the presentation wasn?t working? |
| Communication | • Give me an example of a time when you were able to successfully communicate with another person even when you felt the individual did not value your perspective. |
| Communication | • Have you ever met resistance when implementing a new idea or policy to a work group? How did you deal with it? What happened? |
| Communication | • Tell me about a presentation you made to upper management. What was it about? How did you feel about making the presentation? How did it go? |
| Developing Organizational Talent | • Describe what steps you have taken in your current or previous positions to define and communicate performance expectations to your employees. |
| Developing Organizational Talent | • Tell me about something specific you did to develop yourself that distinguished you from others. |
| Information Monitoring | • Give me an example of a time where you felt you did an outstanding job of sharing information with another person. |
| Innovation | • Describe the most creative work project you’ve ever accomplished. |
| Innovation | • Tell me about a situation when you have had to come up with several new ideas in a hurry. Were they accepted? Were they successful? |
| Integrity | • Describe a time when you took personal accountability for a conflict and initiated contact with the individual(s) involved to explain your actions. |
| Integrity | • Tell me about a recent success you had with an especially difficult employee or coworker. |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Give an example of how you have been successful at empowering either a person or a group of people into accomplishing a task. |
| Judgment/Problem Solving | • Give me a specific example of a time when you used good judgment and logic in solving a problem. |
| Leadership | • Describe a time you established a vision for your department/unit. What process was used? Were others involved in setting the vision and, if so, how? How did the vision contribute to the functioning of the department/unit? |
| Management | • How do you evaluate the productivity/effectiveness of your subordinates? |
| Organizational Awareness | • Describe your organization’s culture and how that culture made it challenging for you to achieve one of your goals. |
| Organizational Awareness | • Give me an example of a time where, had you understood the reasoning behind the key policy, practice, or procedure you would have done something differently. |
| Organizational Awareness | • Tell me about a decision you made that had an unexpected positive impact on another area or department. |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • How do you schedule your time? Set priorities? How do you handle doing twenty things at once? |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • Tell me about a significant project that you managed, focusing on how you made sure that everything was getting done correctly and properly. |
| Practical Learning | • Give me an example of a situation when others knew more than you did. How did you close the gap? |
| Practical Learning | • Walk me through the actions that you have taken to further your own professional development over the last (six months/year/five years). |
| Safety Awareness | • Safety is not a one-person job. Give me an example of a time you were able to improve safety because you chose to involve others in making the improvement. |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Describe a team experience you found disappointing. What specifically made it disappointing? What could you have done to change it from a disappointing to rewarding experience? |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Give me an example of a time that your leadership transformed a group of people into an effective, healthy, productive team. |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Give me an example of a time you were a team player in a project with your peers. |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Give me an example of when you worked cooperatively as a team member to accomplish an important goal. What was the goal or objective? What was your role in achieving this objective? To what extent did you interact with others on the project? |
| Technical/Professional Knowledge | • Tell me about a system you designed or improved. Why did you do it? What benefit resulted? Who was impacted by the design/improvement? How did they react? |
| Technical/Professional Knowledge | • Tell us about a training program that you have developed or enhanced. |
| Tenacity | • Tell me about a time when you were asked to complete a difficult assignment and the odds were against you. What did you learn form the experience? |
| Tolerance for Stress/Energy | • Describe a situation or time when someone or something really got under your skin. |
| Work Standards | • Describe a process or procedure that guides your actions, but for which you have little patience. |
| Adaptability | • Have you ever been caught unaware by a problem or obstacles that you had not foreseen? What happened? |
| Adaptability | • Tell us about a time that you had to adapt to a difficult situation. |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • Give an example of a problem which you faced on any job that you have had and tell how you went about solving it. |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • Tell me about a project that best demonstrates your analytical abilities. |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • Tell us about a time when you had to help two peers settle a dispute. How did you go about identifying the issues? What did you do? What was the result? |
| Communication | • Describe a time you had to give candid feedback to one of your peers. |
| Communication | • Describe the most challenging negotiation in which you were involved. What did you do? What were the results for you? What were the results for the other party? |
| Communication | • Give me an example of an important report you have written. |
| Communication | • How do you prepare for a presentation to a group of technical experts in your field? |
| Communication | • It is very important to build good relationships at work but sometimes it doesn’t always work. If you can, tell me about a time when you were not able to build a successful relationship with a difficult person. |
| Communication | • Tell us about a time when you were particularly effective in a talk you gave or a seminar you taught. |
| Customer Service Orientation | • At times, we are all required to deal with difficult people. An even more demanding factor is to be of service to a difficult person. Describe a time you were successful dealing with a difficult customer. |
| Customer Service Orientation | • Tell me about a situation in which a customer was so difficult that you just gave up trying (or were unable) to satisfy her. |
| Delegation of Authority & Responsibility | • How do you make the decision to delegate work? |
| Developing Organizational Talent | • Describe a time when you were not very satisfied or pleased with your performance. What did you do about it? |
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