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Read MoreBehavioral interviewing tip #6: Be succinct
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Read MoreBehavioral interviewing tip #5: Answer “negative” questions positively and with an appropriate level of candor
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Read MoreBehavioral interviewing tip #4: Give STAR responses
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Read MoreBehavioral interviewing tip #3: Research the company and its industry and products
Previous posts in series: Behavioral interviewing tip #1: Use results to demonstrate past successes Behavioral interviewing tip #2: Prepare stories from your career based on the job description for the position you want This post may seem a bit obvious…
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At Key Corporate Services, we work with our client companies to identify behaviors required for success in an open position and create original behavioral interview questions and scoring criteria. Then we hold the actual interviews to find the most qualified candidates and save our clients time in the interviewing process. In short, we have a lot of experience on which to base our tips! And we’d like to help candidates be better prepared for behavioral interviews, as that benefits both them and our clients.
Read MoreBehavioral interviewing tip #1: Use results to demonstrate past successes
If you’ve done a job search, you’ve probably encountered behavioral interviewing: “Tell me about a time when you…” When behavioral job interviewing first became prominent in the 1990s, people were often caught flat-footed by behavioral questions, which ask you to recount in detail successes, overcoming challenges, and other stories from your career. As time has gone by, however, people have become more familiar with this method of interviewing–but not familiar enough.
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