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Here’s round #06 of job hunting / career advancement material behavioral questions.
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So here goes:
Job Hunt: Interview: 39 Behavioral Questions: Round # 06
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| Attibutes | Questions |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Tell me about a time when you helped others compromise for the good of the team. What was your role? What steps did you take? |
| Tenacity | • Describe a time when you were asked to complete a difficult task or project where the odds were against you. Were you successful? What did you learn from the experience? |
| Tolerance for Stress/Energy | • Tell me about a time you were faced with stressors at work that tested your coping skills. |
| Tolerance for Stress/Energy | • There are times we each feel overwhelmed with a task or project. Tell me about a time this happened to you. |
| Adaptability | • Tell me about the most difficult change you have had to make in your professional career. How did you manage the change? |
| Analysis/Problem Assessment | • Tell me about a time you did not properly handle a disagreement with a coworker. |
| Coaching | • Tell me about a time one of your direct reports was not meeting expectations. |
| Communication | • Describe a time that you were successful primarily because of your ability to communicate orally. |
| Communication | • Describe for me a time you let a problem with an employee get out of hand. |
| Communication | • Give me an example of a situation where you misread another person and ended up making the situation worse instead of better, at least initially. |
| Communication | • Give me an example of a time when you had a disagreement with one of your peers, but were able to find common ground and solve the problem. |
| Communication | • How have you persuaded people through a document you prepared? |
| Communication | • What challenges have occurred while you were coordinating work with other units, departments, and/or divisions? |
| Delegation of Authority & Responsibility | • Describe for me a time when you provided your direct reports with the freedom to determine their work process, within the parameters of the task/project, even though you would have preferred that they do it another way. |
| Delegation of Authority & Responsibility | • Give me an example of when you assigned an employee to make a decision or carry out a major task or responsibility. |
| Delegation of Authority & Responsibility | • Tell me about the kinds of work assignments you give to your direct reports. What assignments do you not give to your direct reports? |
| Information Monitoring | • Tell me about a time where your ability to (think globally/broadly/strategically, or look at the big picture) stopped you or someone else from doing something that would have been a mistake. |
| Initiative | • Give two examples of things you’ve done in previous jobs that demonstrate your willingness to work hard. |
| Innovation | • Give me an example of when someone brought you a new idea that was unique or unusual. What did you do? |
| Integrity | • Discuss a time when your integrity was challenged. |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Keeping others informed of your progress/actions helps them feel comfortable. Tell me your methods for keeping your supervisor advised of the status on projects. |
| Interpersonal Skills/Influence | • Tell us about the most difficult or frustrating individual that you?ve ever had to work with, and how you managed to work with them. |
| Leadership | • Describe a time when you utilized your leadership ability to gain support for something that was initially strongly opposed by others. |
| Leadership | • Tell me about the relationship of your goals in your current position to the organization as a whole. |
| Organizational Awareness | • Describe a time where your ability to understand an organization’s culture helped you develop the relationships and partnerships you needed to accomplish something that had to be done. |
| Organizational Awareness | • Describe for me a time you were able to transform your anxiety or negative emotions into positive emotions and actions. |
| Organizational Awareness | • How have you gone about making important decisions? |
| Organizational Awareness | • Tell me about a time that you unknowingly stepped on a political landmine. What contributed to this misstep? Was it resolved effectively? How? |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • Give me an example of a change you saw coming and how you planned for that change. |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • Give me an example of a time that you realized that one of your direct reports was overburdened with work. What did you do? How did your action affect the situation? |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • Tell me about a time where you did not achieve the results you should have or in the required timeframe. |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • Tell me about a time you achieved a great deal in a short amount of time. |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • Tell me about your current top priorities. How did you determine that they should be your top priorities? |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • Tell us about a job or setting where great precision to detail was required to complete a task. How did you handle that situation? |
| Planning & Organizing/Work Management | • Tell us about your experience in past jobs that required you to be especially alert to details while doing the task involved. |
| Quality Orientation/Attention to Detail | • Do you prefer to work with the “big picture” or the “details” of a situation? Give me an example of an experience that illustrates your preference. |
| Resilience | • Tell me about the worst boss you’ve had. What made her the worst boss? How were you able to work with this person? |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Describe a time when you had to resolve a conflict between two employees or two people on a team. |
| Teamwork/Collaboration | • Give me an example of a time when others with whom you were working on a project disagreed with your idea. |
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