Ask HN: Behavioral Interview Questions. Does anyone have any tips or helpful suggestions for answering Behavioral Interview Questions during a job interview? (explanation and examples: http://www.quintcareers.com/sample_behavioral.html) If you are an employer, do you find using this interview technique effective? Thank you. |
There's a lot of room for embellishment and most behavioral questions don't properly summarize the candidate's qualifications. They're a snapshot of an hour or two when the candidate was faced with a problem, or had to exceed a goal, or had to wow someone with a presentation. Anyone can think of one or two things that they did extraordinarily well and one or two things that challenged them, but that doesn't qualify or disqualify anyone from a job.
Providing them beforehand would possibly be more useful, but in this case there's no real need to "practice" so I don't think that's what the link you provided is referring to.