Past Behavior-based Job Interview Question
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A Past Behavior-based Job Interview Question is an behavioral job interview question that focuses on how a job candidate behaved in a prior work-related situation.
- Context:
- It can be based on the premise that past behavior best predicts future performance in similar situations.
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- Example(s):
- a Teamwork-based Inteview Question, such as:
- Q: "Talk about a time when you had to work closely with someone whose personality was very different from yours?
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- a Teamwork-based Inteview Question, such as:
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Retrospective Question.
References
2020
- https://www.themuse.com/advice/30-behavioral-interview-questions-you-should-be-ready-to-answer
- QUOTE: Teamwork: For questions like these, you want a story that illustrates your ability to work with others under challenging circumstances. Think team conflict, difficult project constraints, or clashing personalities.
- Talk about a time when you had to work closely with someone whose personality was very different from yours.
- Give me an example of a time you faced a conflict while working on a team. How did you handle that?
- Describe a time when you struggled to build a relationship with someone important. How did you eventually overcome that?
- We all make mistakes we wish we could take back. Tell me about a time you wish you’d handled a situation differently with a colleague.
- Tell me about a time you needed to get information from someone who wasn’t very responsive. What did you do?
- QUOTE: Teamwork: For questions like these, you want a story that illustrates your ability to work with others under challenging circumstances. Think team conflict, difficult project constraints, or clashing personalities.
2015
- https://www.thebalance.com/behavioral-job-interviews-2058575
- QUOTE: Behavioral based interviewing is interviewing based on discovering how the interviewee acted in specific employment-related situations. The logic is that how you behaved in the past will predict how you will behave in the future i.e. past performance predicts future performance. …
… In a behavioral interview, an employer has decided what skills are needed in the person they hire and will ask questions to find out if the candidate has those skills. Instead of asking how you would behave, they will ask how you did behave. The interviewer will want to know how you handled a situation, instead of what you might do in the future.
- QUOTE: Behavioral based interviewing is interviewing based on discovering how the interviewee acted in specific employment-related situations. The logic is that how you behaved in the past will predict how you will behave in the future i.e. past performance predicts future performance. …