How to Ace a Behavioral Interview

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With Behavioral Interview questions, employers are trying to:

Decide whether or not you should be punished for past decisions

Encourage you to go back and fix prior mistakes

Predict how you might respond in future situations

Change your personality to meet their needs

A lack of Emotional Intelligence is one of the top reasons that new hires fail to be successful at the job:

True

False

Which of the following would NOT be an example of a Behavioral Interview question:

Tell us about a time you worked effectively under pressure

Have you ever made a mistake and how did you handle it

Why do you want to work for our company

Describe an unpopular decision you made and how you implemented it

Which of these is a top behavior that employers look for:

Perseverance

Conviction

Professionalism

All of the above

Reading the Job Description might help you understand the behaviors that the company values:

True

False

Which of these methods is a popular tool for answering behavioral questions:

SAFE

SHOW

STAR

SOUL

The “S” in the correct method above stands for:

Strategy

Surprise

Sample

Situation

In preparation for the Behavioral Interview, which of the following is NOT true:

You should think of both positive and negative behaviors from your past

More recent behavioral examples are preferred

You should try to focus on one example to highlight all your behaviors

All are true

When asking behavioral questions, employers do not care about lessons you may have learned:

True

False

In the internship project example, this was the surprise hurdle that had to be overcome:

The video had to include the manager's favorite song

The video had to be made available in Spanish

The video had to be made shorter

The video had to be made longer

How to Ace a Behavioral Interview

Behavioral Interviews