{"id":13729,"date":"2023-02-27T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/mastering-your-interviews-behavioural-questions\/"},"modified":"2023-02-28T12:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T02:48:57","slug":"mastering-your-interviews-behavioural-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/mastering-your-interviews-behavioural-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastering your Interviews &#8211; Behavioural Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mastering your Interviews &#8211; Behavioural Questions<\/h1>\n<p>As we are now well and truly into the first quarter of this year, we wanted to refresh you with one of the most helpful (and widely-used) interview tools, to ensure that your putting your best foot forward!<\/p>\n<p>Job interviews can be a daunting experience, even if you feel that you are prepared and a good fit for the position. A successful job interview has a lot to do with how confident you are, your body language, and <strong>how<\/strong> you answer the questions.<\/p>\n<p>Behavioural competency questions are one of the most important components of interviews, and they are a technique used to analyse your suitability for the role and for the company, based on your past problem-solving decisions and general behvaiours &#8211; outside of your experience and skills. The employer will ask you questions based on real life situations that you have been exposed to in your professional environment, and there is a certain way you need to be answering them: <strong>The STAR method<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example: &#8220;describe a time when you worked with a challenging team member, how did you handle it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"width: 432px; height: 398px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-01.cms-ap-v2i.applyflow.com\/peopleconnexion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/star_model.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you break the question up into four sections you will be able to construct a well thought out and structured answer.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What was the <strong>situation\/<\/strong><strong>context of the achievement;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Describe the <strong>task &#8211; what were you asked to do?;<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Explain the <strong>action<\/strong> you took; and <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Finally, the <strong>result\/impact of your decisions\/behaviour\/action. Whether it was a positive achievement, or if it was an area for improvement\/development for future courses of action.\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you adopt this model, you are setting yourself up to succeed in your interview when phased with a behavioural question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mastering your Interviews &#8211; Behavioural Questions As we are now well and truly into the first quarter of this year, we wanted to refresh you with one of the most helpful (and widely-used) interview tools, to ensure that your putting your best foot forward! 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