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Here I am again with the latest and greatest in job hunting / career advancement material, and have been compiling a list of behavioral questions that companies can and do use during the interviews. Treat these just like you were at an interview and give them some real thought.
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So here goes:
Job Hunt: Interview: 39 Behavioral Questions: Round # 02
| Attibutes | Questions |
| Adaptability | • Most organizations today make ongoing changes in policies and procedures. Tell me about a time you had difficulty in dealing with one of these changes. What about the change made it difficult? How did you deal with the situation? |
| Adaptability | • Tell me about a time when you changed or modified your priorities to meet another person’s or group’s expectations. |
| Adaptability | • What do you do when your schedule is suddenly interrupted? Give an example. |
| Communication | • Describe a time when you were able to effectively communicate a difficult or unpleasant idea to a superior. |
| Communication | • Describe the most significant presentation you have had to complete. |
| Communication | • Give me an example of a time when you were able to successfully communicate with a person you personally did not like. |
| Communication | • Tell me about a time when someone misunderstood something you wrote. How did you determine that you had been misunderstood? How did you make yourself clear? |
| Communication | • Tell us about a recent success you had with an especially difficult employee/co-worker. |
| Customer Service Orientation | • Describe the process or method you used in a particular situation to develop an understanding of your internal/external customer’s viewpoints and needs. |
| Customer Service Orientation | • Give me an example of a time when you acted as an advocate for a client or customer in the face of resistance from a person or the organization as a whole. |
| Developing Organizational Talent | • Describe a time you were able to provide a peer or higher-level management person with recognition for the work she performed. |
| Developing Organizational Talent | • What have you done to further your own professional development in the past 5 years? |
| Follow-Up | • Tell me about the methods you use to keep informed of your employees’ activities, achievements, progress toward objectives, etc. |
| Initiative | • Give me an example when you initiated a change in a process or operations. |
| Initiative | • Give me examples of projects/tasks you started on your own. |
| Initiative | • Give me some examples of you doing more than what was expected of you in your job. |
| Integrity | • Tell us about a specific time when you had to handle a tough problem which challenged fairness or ethnical issues. |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a (rude, sarcastic, know-it-all, gossipy, negative, uncooperative, or finger-pointing) person. How did you handle the situation? Were you able to get along? How (or why not)? |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Tell me about a time where you lost your patience listening to someone who you believed did not know what she was talking about. |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Tell me about a time you feel you mismanaged an emotionally charged situation. |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Tell me about the best idea you ever sold to a peer, employee, or higher level management. What was your approach? Why do you think you succeeded? |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Tell us about a time when you used your leadership ability to gain support for what initially had strong opposition. |
| Judgment/Problem Solving | • Everyone has made some poor decisions or has done something that just did not turn out right. Has this happened to you? What happened? |
| Judgment/Problem Solving | • Tell me about a time you had to defend a decision you made. |
| Leadership | • Describe the most unpopular stand you have taken in your job. |
| Leadership | • Give me an example of a strategy you developed to achieve a long or short-term business need, goal, or objective. |
| Management | • How do you get subordinates to work at their peak potential? Give an example. |
| Management | • How often do you discuss a subordinate’s performance with him/her? Give an example. |
| Organizational Awareness | • Tell me how you went about learning how your current organization works? |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • Describe a time you had to manage a project where the acquisition, storage, and use of materials were critical factors (e.g., the product has a short shelf life). |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • Give me some examples of how you determine priorities in scheduling your time. |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • Some people consider themselves to be ?big picture people? and others are ?detail oriented?. Which are you? Give an example of a time when you displayed this. |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • Tell me about a major project you recently finished. Specifically, how did you set the goals and monitor your progress? |
| Risk Taking | • Give me an example of a time you felt that it was necessary to circumvent company policy to meet a customer’s needs. |
| Risk Taking | • Tell me about a time you had a chance to take a risk, but decided that the risk was too high. |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Tell me about a time that you cooperated with someone when you really would rather have not cooperated. |
| Technical/Professional Knowledge | • Describe examples of required administrative paperwork/forms you have utilized in the past. Did you find the procedures useful? Why/why not? |
| Technical/Professional Knowledge | • Describe something that you have implemented at work. What were the steps used to implement this? |
| Technical/Professional Knowledge | • When you have to make a highly technical decision, how do you go about doing it? |
Hope this round was helpful! Come back next week for some more!