When I was a journalism major, I wrote countless papers. Many of the papers that I would get back had the words, "Show -- don't tell" written on them. It took awhile to figure out what I was not doing ...
A behavioral interview can be one of the more cringe-inducing aspects of the job search process. It's never easy being judged, yet that's what a behavioral interview is all about. An employer needs to ...
One of the biggest mistakes you can make in an interview? Failing to answer a structured, behavioral question with a specific example. Unfortunately, it happens all too often. To understand how to ...
We’ve all been there–sitting in an interview you thought you were prepared for when the dreaded words, “Tell me about a time when . . . ” come out of the interviewer’s mouth. Suddenly your memory ...
The right interviewing technique helps you assess candidates efficiently. However, asking the wrong questions increases the risks of bias and may result in hiring an unsuitable person for the position ...
When being interviewed for a job, you’ll likely be asked a combination of question types, including traditional, situational, and behavioral. Out of all of these, behavioral questions have become one ...
People interviewing for jobs today often fail because they are using yesterday's strategies. Recruiting technology has become more sophisticated, and the best employers are constantly changing the way ...
Did you freeze up the last time an interviewer opened a question with "Tell me about a time when…"? That's a behavioral interview question, and many interviewees find them tricky to handle. Job ...
Many employers now turn to behavioral interview techniques with the hope of improving retention and success rates. The premise is that the most accurate predictor of future performance is past ...
When applying for tech jobs, many people worry about the technical questions and leave little time or energy for much else. But with so many people in the same fields, all with similar backgrounds, ...
Dear Recruiting … I’ve used behavioral interviewing. It seems to work pretty well, so long as the interviewer probes a bit. But maybe I’m peculiar. I figure that if an interviewee can make it up well ...