what is a behavioural interview in this video i'm going to explain what happens in a behavioral
interview and how you can pass one i'm Amri Celeste an interview coach and hr recruitment
specialist with over 10 years hiring experience and on this channel i make videos to help you
get hired and secure the job that you want so if you are job hunting do like and subscribe
so first what is a behavioral interview in a behavioral interview your interviewers will be
assessing your behaviors so there's a wide variety of things that they can assess for and that can
include things like how you respond to stressful situations how you work with a team what motivates
you how well you adapt to new things your values how you handle conflict how well you're likely
to communicate with colleagues clients customers or management your perception of failure and
success and how you handle these situations and they can use many different methods to assess
your character personality and your behaviors so things like personality profile assessments if
you haven't done one of these before companies like myers-briggs thomas international or shl
provide these types of tests where you answer a series of questions about your personality and
behaviors and it will come up with a summary on your character for the employer sometimes
these are referred to as psychometric tests a term you may have heard before but that term is
a little bit broad because there are hundreds of psychometric tests that assess different aspects
of an individual not just personality so it could also include things like your analytical skills
your verbal reasoning your numerical ability and much more the most common way though to assess
candidates is with a simple question and answer now i've regularly recommended the star method
to answer interview questions i've recommended this in so many of my videos but with behavioral
interview questions you can use the star method to accentuate specific aspects of your behavior
or personality but you can also give really rich and well-rounded answers without using the star
method in case you don't know what the star method is star stands for situation task action result
and it works really well to answer many types of interview questions particularly situational
questions because in order to answer situational questions your answer needs to include a situation
plus the task caused from that situation the actions you took and the result or outcome it's
a really popular method to use to answer interview questions and it's also a common framework that
interviewers use to assess your answer against to make sure that you're covering those four areas in
your answer it is important to know what the star technique is if you're job hunting or interviewing
so i highly recommend you check out this video where i give a fuller more detailed explanation
of the star technique and i've included an example interview question and a full example answer so
that you can see how to use it behavioral interview questions behavioral interview
questions are questions like how do you handle conflict what makes an effective communicator
how do you handle failure and what does success look like to you there can also be questions
about your approach to teamwork what motivates you what kind of things you regret or how you adapt to
drastic or significant change i'll be covering example answers to these behavioral questions
in my next video so do subscribe and tap the notification bell is so that you'll get notified
when that's ready for you as i'll be covering some answers really in depth and i'll also
show you how to form your own answers to behavioral questions what not to do
remember with these questions you're demonstrating your behaviors it's not
the same as answering a general or situational question the interviewer really wants to get
into your character and personality so remember to include the justification behind your actions
that shows your thinking not just listing out the situation step by step what happened
the actions robotically your answers need to heavily demonstrate your thinking and your values
how to pass so i covered this in my competency video so you may know some of this if you've
seen it but the key to passing any interview lies in the prep how you prepare can make or
break your interview and lack of prep is the most common reason that candidates get declined
i always say that your prep should be split into two areas but for behavioral interviews i'm going
to cover a third area that is key for this type of interview first a thorough understanding of the jd
with a focus on the essential areas of the job and think about how your skills relate to that
role for example if it's a sales role you'd focus on things like communication persuasion ability to
get results for a secretarial role it would be things like organization ability to prioritize
i could go on but you get the point i get a little bit more detailed in my interview prep guide which
is totally free you can download that below and it covers things like examples of key skills that you
can give in your interview plus what to research where you should be looking the kinds of questions
you should be asking at the end plus much more so i'll link that in the description below for you
second practice speaking your answers it's a night and day difference and once you've practiced your
answers to common behavioral questions your answers will be changed and refined as you
practice the result when you get in the interview will be that you come across as a completely
different candidate your confidence will skyrocket and you'll find that you don't suffer from as much
interview nerves or forget what you plan to say as often third in order to present yourself well
in any behavioral interview focus on the soft skills section of the job description
now it could also be labeled values or go by another name but it will always be about the
behaviors that are required in the role i normally advise that you focus on the essential skills area
because of course they're essential you need them to do the job but if you know that behavioral
questions will be included in your interview then do not neglect the soft skills area of the job
description because you'll need to know that too now this is really important your practice needs
to include introspection which is essentially self-analysis of how you approach situations
and your mental process so how you think about situations this is important because the more
self-awareness you can show of your own behaviors and your ability to assess yourself accurately
will really make you stand out in a behavioral interview watch this a couple of times really
take action on the steps i've given you and you will do really well i've done all this to help
you sail through your interview so follow my advice and you will do really well thank you
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