Saturday 31 January 2015

Sample Behavioural Job Interview Questions and Answers

11. Have you ever had difficulty working with a manager?
Review sample answer to the interview question “Have you ever had difficulty working with a manager?” Be careful when talking about your previous managers. You don’t want to come across as difficult, and you want to express any of your previous experiences in the most positive way.
• I had an unsmooth beginning with a manager, because we didn’t have the same thought for the flow of the workday. When we discussed about it, we recognized that our targets fitted each other, and we were able to cooperate successfully together for many years.
• I have realized that if I spend my time discussing with my manager at the beginning of the project, we could make it easily go through every challenge.

12. Give me an example of a time when you had to think out of the box?
The interview is expecting to see if you are a man of initiative, innovation and dynamism or not. You are supposed to not only demonstrate your creative idea, but also describe how you came up with that idea, and how that idea helped your success. But remember, not every idea is suitable in answering this question. You should screen your memory for an example of idea which may be useful to the current job so as to prove to the interviewer that you are totally able to think of something for the new job.
• I am able to say that I have rarely had a trouble with anyone. I try to find out the common between us and then adapt with everyone’s different personality.

13. Tell me about a project you worked on that required heavy analytical thinking?
This is one of those behavioral interview questions about your competency.
The best way for an interviewer to examine if the potential candidate possesses the right analytical mind for the job is to consider a real example stated by the candidate and raise question. Not only the interviewer is able to hear a situation that the candidate dealt with his analytical skills, he is also able to witness the demonstration of such skills by the candidate himself by answering those questions raised by him. As a candidate, you should be double-careful with this type of question.
Related questions to this interview question may be: what formal and informal analysis did you do? How did you scan the situation? how did you do to overcome such obstacles? What did you think is the best lesson from such experience.

14. Tell me about a time when you failed?
It is certainly that anyone fails sometime, especially at work. For example, fail to comply with the regulations, fail to meet the deadline, fail to persuade others, fail to meet the goals….What matters more is what you learn from such failure, and the interviewer is planning to investigate that.
There are various reasons to failure: objective or subjective, a fraud, a wrong action, an omission or a lack of capacity…you don’t need to be too cautious about these, as if you learn from your failure, then there is nothing to worry about.
In answering this question, first, state a situation when you fail to do something (It is better if the reason is not your subjective intention). Then state how you realized that and dealt with that. And finally, how you learn from that.

15. Tell me about a time you faced an ethical dilemma?
In this question, you have to demonstrate your high ethical standards and honesty personality.
Telling that you haven’t met any ethical issue is not a good way to deal with this question. In fact, people always face with the problem of ethic sometimes in their life. For example, when you discovered a wrongdoing, or a fraud by anyone, any violation of regulations, any cheating or any lie, all are ethical to you. So, don’t avoid this question.
At work, ethical problems are frequent, subject to your knowledge of them, though. An accountant makes a wrong statement, a security fails to comply with the procedures, a director fails to delegate, or a colleague makes some personal gain by cutting corners on a project.
In answering this question, you may mention the problem, but don’t mention the name of the person or else it may generate negative feelings. You should be flexible in dealing with the problem: some may require immediate action to stop, but as for others, you may act gently and resolve the problem in peace.
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