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Have good behavioral interview skills?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I would suggest that most companies use behavioral-based interview processes for professional positions. Don’t quote me on that! It is just my best professional opinion.
Behavioral interviewing has proven to be one of the most effective interviewing processes for employers.
In the behavioral interview process, you are given a series of opened ended questions. The interviewer will ask you to specifically describe a situation(s) from your past experience and will be evaluating what your behavior was while handling that particular situation.
Skilled interviewers will ensure that your answers can not be yes or no, and will require you to give some thought to your answer. The assumption is, the best predictor of future performance is based on past behavior.
During this process, you will want to be completely honest and describe the situation and your behavior as accurately as you can. You are not telling the truth, it will show. If there were incidents were you may not have handled the situation properly, admit to it and explain the lesson you learned from it. The last thing you want to do is to place blame because from an employer’s perspective, you will be doing the same thing if hired at their company.
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