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Behavioural Interview Questions Explained
By Andrew Reed
Behavioural Interview Questions, also called Situational, are used as a tool in job interviews to discover how your performance in a previous job may contribute to your future performance in the role being recruited for.
Behavioural Interviewing is becoming increasingly common and is used by many large organisations such as BT, Accenture and many of the large banking organisations.
The basic theory is that past behaviour in work related situations can be used as a predictor of future performance and studies have shown this technique to be about 5 times more accurate than traditional interview questions when selecting new employees.
How Behavioural Interview Questions Work
When using behavioural interviewing techniques the interviewer will ask open-ended interview questions relating to your behaviour in past situations and will try to match these with the pre-set requirements of the role.
These Behaviour Based Interview Questions require you to provide specific examples of what you have done in the past and usually take the form of:
- Tell me about a time when you...
- Give an example of a situation...
- Describe a situation...
They are designed to gather detailed evidence
and you will find that once you have given your answer the interviewer
will probe deeper and may pick certain aspects to investigate
further.
Be prepared for follow on questions such as:
- How exactly did you do that?
- Tell me exactly what steps you took to resolve that
- What was the basis for that decision?
By delving deeper into the detail of your answer the interviewer knows that it becomes very difficult for you to sustain a fabricated story.
Help with answering Competency and Behavioural interview questions can be found here.
Tips for Answering Behavioural Interview Questions
We recommend that you choose answers
based on real experiences that you have had. Avoid the temptation to
invent a scenario or embellish an existing one.
Your response needs to be relevant and sufficiently
detailed. Be specific and tell a story and to help we recommend that you use the
following structure:
- Describe the situation or problem
- Talk about the part YOU played in discovering the problem
- Describe what YOU did to resolve it, the actions YOU took
- Detail the successful result and use figures to illustrate
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About the Author
Andrew Reed is an experienced interviewer and has developed successful recruitment strategies for large organisations within the Customer Services, HR and Finance sectors.
