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Here’s round #05 of job hunting / career advancement material behavioral questions.
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So here goes:
Job Hunt: Interview: 39 Behavioral Questions: Round # 05
| 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? |