Behavioral Job Interviews: What They Are, How They Work, and How to Ask Behavioral Interview Questions That Identify the Perfect Candidate
What is a behavioral job interview? Here’s a handy guide, along with some great behavioral job interview questions you can ask.
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7 min readJan 21, 2020
By Jeff Haden
Most job interviewers ask a few conventional interview questions, like this breakdown of the twenty-seven most common interview questions and answers. Most ask at least one unusual interview question. Some even ask a brain teaser (even though research shows that approach is not only worthless, asking brain teasers also makes the interviewer look bad.)
But just about every job interview includes at least a few behavioral interview questions, and for good reason.
Hold that thought.
What Are Behavioral Job Interview Questions?
Say you ask a job candidate, “How important do you feel diversity is in the workplace?” That’s an opinion-based question; even if the candidate feels understanding and inclusion is unimportant, the fact you asked tells them you care about diversity.
