behavioural interview friday-HELP

juanveron45

Basically I have this interview friday I think its behavioural I looked it up on the internet and the questions can get tricky but I think the behavioural interview I will have will be the most basic of these types of interview.

The company gave me a list of question to look over, they said the questions will be similar but not the same ones here are the questions.Can anyone help or expand on how to prepare for this,can anyone think of some questions they could ask that are like these?

HERE ARE THE QUESTIONS THEY GAVE ME

How comfortable would you be if you had to change your plans quickly or reschedule your work at the last minute?
How well you might work in different teams and rotate between activities?


Can you think of examples when you had to be mindful of the needs of others in the workplace?


How well do you work as part of a team?
What have been some of the main challenges you have faced working in a team environment?


Can you describe how you go about solving problems in the workplace?


Have you been in a situation where it has been very important that you communicate information accurately?

leeroybrown

I've sat one behavioural interview. I didn't know beforehand that it would take that format so it was interesting to sit it without any prior experience of the format or preparation for it. All the questions I was asked were quite specific with reference to past experience I had as opposed to the very generic sounding examples they gave you. The main thing that I would say is that they will probably be more than willing to allow you thinking time for questions so don't worry about using it.

Two other questions I would possibly suggest are:

Can you describe a situation where you had difficulties in your working relationship with a co-worker and how you to resolved them?

Can you describe a situation where you were involved in a group making an important decision and how you worked with the groupt to influence the final decision?

There are probably more 'scientific' ways that they state these kinds of questions and there should be loads of examples available online. There was also a decent behavioural interview thread on this forum a good while ago (6months+).

While I found it an interesting experience to be interviewed like that I was also left with the (negative) impression that the interview was more to do with finding someone who fitted in rather than would do a good job. Unfortunately they hired me. I was more than able to do a good job while my motivation lasted but I didn't really fit in - something that my interview technique masked. Essentially I got the job based on good interview technique and knowledge/experience that someone else with good interview technique could easily have bluffed.

DublinEvents

While it's certainly true that it would be desirable to have employees who can work well in a team environment, tests like these are not a definite way of finding out how a prospective candidate will behave in your office environment. Since most of them are interested in getting hired, they will answer questions in a way that satisfies the employers. Once hired, they might stay dormant for a while but still cause trouble later on down the road. The only way to know for sure is to hire employees based on how much potential or experience they have of doing the job you require them to do and just let them interact with the team to see how well they can cope with your office environment.

Pablo

Best advice for this kind of interview is not to think too much about the 'right' answer. These tests are more about seeing how stable/dependable a person is , not whether they can do the job.

Also lying in these tests isn't advise as there might be similar questions, and you lie differently in both and thus leads to an result that has a higher dependability, when they do an automatic crosscheck.