Begin your job hunt with a few good behavioral interview questions to practice!
I’m constantly checking out the latest and greatest in job hunting / career advancement type-like material, and have been compiling a list of behavioral questions that companies can and do use during the interviews.
I have quite a few and plan to post them in a spread-out fashion over the next few months. I’ll attempt to keep it relatively short and ‘random’. Treat these just like you were at an interview and give them some real thought.
Heck, leave your answers in the comment section!
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So here goes: Job Hunt: Interview: 39 Behavioral Questions: Round # 01
| Attributes | Questions |
| Adaptability | • What do you do when your time schedule or project plan is upset by unforeseen circumstances? Give an example. |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • Tell me about a time when one of your weaknesses got the better of you. |
| Communication | • Describe the most creative oral presentation you have had to make. |
| Communication | • Tell me about a time when you and your previous supervisor disagreed but you still found a way to get your point across. |
| Communication | • There are always times when we disagree with others. Some people are congenial when we disagree with them, but that’s not true of others. Tell me about a time when you had the courage to express your opposing opinion to someone who generally does not take well to opposing viewpoints. What working relationship did you have with this person – peer, supervisor, etc.? Why did you decide to speak up? |
| Customer Service Orientation | • Describe for me a situation when you had to build and maintain a new relationship in order to accomplish a business goal. |
| Customer Service Orientation | • Give me an example of when you wish you would have spent some time looking for common ground with stakeholders before you took a particular action. |
| Customer Service Orientation | • How do you handle problems with customers? Give an example. |
| Information Monitoring | • How do you get data for performance reviews? |
| Initiative | • Describe a situation in which you recognized a potential problem as an opportunity. |
| Innovation | • Can you think of a situation where innovation was required at work? What did you do in this situation? |
| Innovation | • Tell me about a problem that you’ve solved in a unique or unusual way. Were you happy with the outcome? |
| Innovation | • There are many jobs that require creative or innovative thinking. Give an example of when you had such a job and how you handled it. |
| Integrity | • Describe a time when you were asked to keep information confidential. |
| Integrity | • Give me an example of a time when you were able to keep a confidence, even when you were tempted to break it or it would have been easier to break it. |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Describe a time when you facilitated a creative solution to a problem between two employees. |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Describe a time when you had to influence a number of different people/groups coming from different perspectives to support you in what you wanted or needed to do. What kind of influencing techniques did you use? How were the techniques you used different from one group/person to another? |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Give me an example of a time that your ability to notice another person’s feelings or concerns enabled you to proactively address an issue. |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Tell me about a time when you anticipated a problem and were able to use your influence or persuasiveness to change the direction of the situation positively. |
| Judgment/Problem Solving | • Describe the way you handled a specific problem involving others with differing values, ideas, and beliefs in your current/previous job. |
| Judgment/Problem Solving | • Give an example of a time in which you had to keep from speaking or not finish a task because you did not have enough information to come to a good decision. How did you go about deciding what strategy to employ when dealing with a difficult customer? |
| Judgment/Problem Solving | • Give me an example of a situation when, by recognizing and considering the financial implications of a decision, you decided to do something different from what you originally planned. |
| Judgment/Problem Solving | • Tell me about a time when you took a public stance on an issue and then had to change your position. |
| Judgment/Problem Solving | • Tell me about the worst on-the-job decision you’ve ever made. |
| Judgment/Problem Solving | • There is more than one way to solve a problem. Give an example from your recent work experience that would illustrate this. |
| Organizational Awareness | • Describe a time when politics at work affected your job. How did you deal with it? |
| Organizational Awareness | • Give me an example of a decision that was made in your area that had an adverse impact on another area or department. |
| Practical Learning | • Describe a situation where your professional/technical expertise made a significant difference. |
| Practical Learning | • Describe a time for me when you were able to solve a business problem or challenge by applying something that you learned through a personal or business interest of yours. |
| Practical Learning | • Tell me about a time you had to do an unfamiliar task. |
| Practical Learning | • Through a real-life story, convince me that you are able to apply specific product/service knowledge to solve an internal or external problem. |
| Risk Taking | • Tell me about a time where, with an internal or external customer, you had to try something you’ve never done before. |
| Risk Taking | • Tell me about a time you took a risk and failed. |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Gaining the cooperation of others can be difficult. Give a specific example of when you had to do that, and what challenges you faced. What was the outcome? What was the long-term impact on your ability to work with this person? |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Give me an example of a time when you disagreed with the views of your direct reports. |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Tell me about at time when you were part of a team that did not get along or did not work well together. What happened? |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • What have you done in past situations to contribute toward a teamwork environment? |
| Work Standards | • Tell me about the biggest error in judgment you made in your current position. Why did you make the error? How did you correct it? |
| Work Standards | • When you have been made aware of, or have discovered for yourself, a problem in your work performance, what was your course of action? Can you give an example? |
Got those done, yet? :) See ya’ @ round 2 in a few weeks!