What is Behavioral Style Interviewing and Why do I Care?

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What is Behavioral Style Interviewing and Why do I Care?

Over the years, interviewers have deployed all sorts of methods to weed out candidates in an effort to determine who is best qualified for a job. A lot has changed from the days when the interviewer could ask anything s/he wanted to. With changes in laws regarding discrimination, etc, new methods were developed to pass judgment on candidates. One of those methods is called Behavioral Style interviewing and the reality is you may not even know you are in this type of interview.

You may be asking yourself, What exactly is behavioral interviewing and why do I care? Behavioral style interviewing is a standard method of eliciting information from a candidate about his or her relevant past behavior and performance. The key word is relevant, meaning, how you performed in job situations in the past where these same situations might be in the job you are applying for. The thought process is that your past behaviors are the best indicator of future behavior. A good job interviewer will have assembled all the necessary skills required for the job and prepared a list of behavioral style questions surrounding...

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