As it turns out, you never can learn enough about what to anticipate in a job interview. As interviewers have become more sophisticated, a candidate must as well.
“Behavioral interviewing” has been catching on, and with good reason. Often referred to as the STAR approach (Situation or Task, Action you took, Results you achieved), it reflects a need to find out more about the soft skills you can bring to the table (and the job).
Instead of merely reciting a bullet list of your skills or accomplishments, these are questions about how you behave, particularly in situations of stress or challenge. If you (and who hasn’t?) have too many things to do under impossible deadlines, how do you, or did you, prioritize your tasks?
Or, talk about a stressful situation you were in, how you dealt with it and what you learned from it? Was there a time when you were given an important job and failed at it? Or needed to make an instantaneous decision – nobody else around to help make it for you?
You get the picture – it’s complex, and it’s demanding. The good news is that, at least for now, it’s a type of interviewing used most commonly only by large, top-notch corporations. If you can prepare yourself to tell stories that create a bridge to the employer’s needs, you’re in great shape.
The even-better news – regardless of whether your career is still in its early stages, you’ll be able to think back and prepare great stories to wow the interviewer.
(Spoiler warning!!!) We’ll be revisiting behavioral interviewing in the future, but in the meantime you can get more information about interviewing.
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