Can you answer these 8 behavioral questions

Here is a new crop of behavioral interview questions that I plucked from a discussion forum. Some of them may look familiar, but others will annoy you.


1) What would do if you thought your team members were not willing to accept you?



2)Let's say your team mates are working diligently on a project, yet it is still not successful. What would you do?


3) What would do if you had a team leader that is inefficient?

4) Let's say you have a busy team leader who is unavailable most of the time and has no time to listen to you. You have made an error you need to correct. What would you do to solve the problem?

5) What is your greatest weakness? How do you plan to overcome it?


6. Describe three qualities in you that makes you suitable for our company and explain why you think that?

7. Identify three of your personal attributes that make you makes you suitable for our company. Explain why you think this?

8. Why should I hire you over person X??

More behavioral interview preparation

1. Tell me about your greatest accomplishment on the job.


2. Tell me about a difficult situation you encountered at work and how you overcame it.


3. Give me three adjectives you would use to describe yourself and examples of your work style to support them.


4. Give me three adjectives you would use to describe your weaknesses/areas for improvement and the reasons why you feel you need to work on these.


5. If I was to ask a co-worker about you, how would they describe you on-the-job?


6. Tell me about a time where you were required to work with a difficult person (i.e. client, co-worker, manager, etc.). How did you handle the situation? What was the outcome?


7. If you were given a task to complete in an unrealistic time frame, what would you do?


8. If someone came to you with an enthusiastic, yet unrealistic request, how would you handle it?


9. Why are you looking to leave your current position?


10. What do you want to get out of your next job?


11. Tell me about the best manager you ever had? Now tell me about the worst?


12. What are the three most valuable things you’ve learned while working in your current position?


13. What was the biggest mistake you’ve made on a job? How did you handle the failure?


14. What do you feel makes you successful in your current role? Give an example to support your success.


15. What do you think makes a company good to work for? What do you like about your current company? What could be better?


16. Do you prefer working alone or in teams? Give examples of how you have worked successfully both alone and in a team? What do you attribute your success to?


17. What are your own business philosophies - what do you feel must be present in a successful business?


18. What skills are you looking to develop in your next job? Why?

Behavioral interview questions - uncomfortable question again

Behavioral interview questions are uncomfortable. I've preached that over again on this blog. The more comfortable you get answering them, the better you'll be able to handle the unexpected.

How would you answer this question: Tell me about an objective in your last position that you failed to meet, and why.

No one wants to admit to failure. Pick one that was not essential to your job. Use your STAR (situation, task, action, result).

It is good to add what you learned from this example, and what you would differently the next time, to ensure that you did meet the objective or quickly resolve the problem.