Interviewing can be a very stressful process. There are several different interviewing styles, but I would like to share with you all an interviewing method in which I have the most experience and I feel is the most intimidating for interviewees. I am addressing the behaviorally-based interview.

Each company conducts their interview process differently. A company that I worked for used a very popular published method that is come across many companies. It involved interviewing with thress to five separate people within the company and a scoring system of sorts based upon the applicant’s responses to behaviorally-based questions.

First let me explain behaviorally-based questioning. In these types on interviews, the interviewers will ask for the interviewee to provide specific examples pertaining to the area in the line of questioning. An example of a behavior-based question is ” Tell me about a time when you had to work with a difficult client. How did you handle it and what was the outcome?”

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