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I present to you another round (#03!!!) of job hunting / career advancement material – 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 # 03
| Attibutes | Questions |
| Tenacity | • Tell me about some of the obstacles you have had to overcome to reach your present position. |
| Adaptability | • Give me an example of a time when you missed the early signs of employee resistance to an organizational change? |
| Adaptability | • What is the most competitive work situation you have experienced? How did you handle it? What was the result? |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • Give me an example of a time when you caught a discrepancy or inconsistency in the available information that might have caused significant problems if you had missed it. |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • We all have weaknesses that can interfere with our success. Tell me about one of yours and how you overcame it to be successful on a specific task or project. |
| Communication | • Describe a situation when you were able to strengthen a relationship by communicating effectively. What made your communication effective? |
| Communication | • Describe a time you failed to communicate important information to your boss. |
| Customer Service Orientation | • Tell me about a time when you encountered a customer who was complaining of poor service. What did you do? |
| Customer Service Orientation | • Tell me about a time you wished you would have handled an unhappy, angry, or irate customer in a different way. |
| Delegation of Authority & Responsibility | • Describe a time you had to delegate parts of a large project or assignment to some of your direct reports. How did you decide what tasks to delegate to which people? What problems occurred? |
| Developing Organizational Talent | • Describe a time you caught an error that someone else made that could have affected the outcome of a project (or affected a customer). |
| Developing Organizational Talent | • Give me an example of a time you improved the use of or return on a resource, where the positive impact was broader than just your team/department. |
| Developing Organizational Talent | • Tell me about a time when you had to tell a staff member that you were dissatisfied with his work. |
| Impact | • What impact did you have in your last job? |
| Initiative | • Give me an example of a project or task that you had to accomplish without sufficient information, guidelines, or direction. |
| Innovation | • Describe the most significant plan or program that you ever developed or implemented. |
| Integrity | • Tell me about a business situation when you felt honesty was inappropriate. Why? |
| Integrity | • Tell me about a time when one of your weaknesses got the better of you. |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Give me an example of a time when you persuaded someone to do something that the person did not, initially, want to do. |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Have you had to “sell” an idea to your co-workers, classmates or group? How did you do it? Did they “buy” it? |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Tell me about the most important negotiation you have handled in the last couple of years. |
| Judgment/Problem Solving | • Give me an example of a time you had to make a decision where you needed to carefully consider a great deal of conflicting, as well as supporting, information, opinions, and data. |
| Judgment/Problem Solving | • Tell me about one of the most important decisions you have made when the information for that decision was based on the questions you asked. |
| Management | • Give an example of a time when you helped a staff member accept change and make the necessary adjustments to move forward. What were the change/transition skills that you used? |
| Management | • Tell me about a time you had to take disciplinary action with one of your direct reports. What led to that action? How did you handle it? What was the outcome? |
| Management | • When do you give positive feedback to people? Tell me about the last time you did. Give an example of how you handle the need for constructive criticism with a subordinate or peer. |
| Organizational Awareness | • Give me an example of a time where–even though it was difficult–you were able to control and filter you emotions in a constructive way. |
| Organizational Awareness | • Tell me about a time when your ability to find relationships between things inside and/or outside the organization helped you be more effective. |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • Tell us about a specific development plan that you created and carried out with one or more of your employees. What was the specific situation? What were the components of the development plan? What was the outcome? |
| Practical Learning | • Describe a time when you had to learn something quickly to solve a problem. |
| Practical Learning | • Give me an example of a time that you failed at something and learned. What did you learn? How did you apply that learning? How did it change your work style or approach? |
| Practical Learning | • Tell me about a time you were unable to overcome a (technical/functional/job skill) problem? Why do you think you were unsuccessful? What did you learn from that situation? |
| Quality Orientation/Attention to Detail | • Tell us about a difficult experience you had in working with details. |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Describe a time when your ability to pick up on the intentions or needs of a group resulted in you changing your course of action. |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Tell me about a time you were able to gain commitment from others to really work as a team. |
| Technical/Professional Knowledge | • Tell me about a time you applied technology to improve a service, process, or productivity. |
| Tenacity | • Describe your most challenging project or situation and how you overcame the obstacles. |
| Tenacity | • Give me an example of a time that you gave up on something before you finished. Why did you give up? |
| Tolerance for Stress/Energy | • Sometimes we need to remain calm on the outside when we are really upset on the inside. Give an example of a time that this happened to you. |
Hope you liked them!