This document provides examples of behavioral interview questions in four categories: communication skills, adaptability, customer service, and time management. The questions are designed to assess a candidate's abilities in these key soft skills areas by having them describe relevant past experiences. Examples include questions about resolving conflicts, embracing changes, delivering bad news to customers, prioritizing tasks with competing demands, and learning from times when deadlines were missed.
This document provides examples of behavioral interview questions in four categories: communication skills, adaptability, customer service, and time management. The questions are designed to assess a candidate's abilities in these key soft skills areas by having them describe relevant past experiences. Examples include questions about resolving conflicts, embracing changes, delivering bad news to customers, prioritizing tasks with competing demands, and learning from times when deadlines were missed.
This document provides examples of behavioral interview questions in four categories: communication skills, adaptability, customer service, and time management. The questions are designed to assess a candidate's abilities in these key soft skills areas by having them describe relevant past experiences. Examples include questions about resolving conflicts, embracing changes, delivering bad news to customers, prioritizing tasks with competing demands, and learning from times when deadlines were missed.
BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS: Questions To hire the right candidates COMMUNICATION SKILLS
• Describe a time when you
resolved a conflict. • Describe a time when you were able to verbally calm a situation down. • Tell me about a time when you had to get someone else to see things your way. • How have you convinced someone to do something they didn’t want to do? ADAPTABILITY
Describe a time when you
embraced a change being made, when you didn’t agree with the change.
Tell me about the most difficult
change you’ve had to implement in your career.
What have you done when you’ve
been given a project beneath your level of responsibility or experience? CUSTOMER SERVICE
• Tell me about a time when you had
to deliver bad news to a customer. • Describe a time when you went out of your way to satisfy a customer, and the outcome. • Tell me how you prioritize customer requests when they’re all demanding to be treated as your top priority. • How have you handled a customer who was blatantly lying about their experience? TIME MANAGEMENT • When you work on multiple projects, how do you prioritize? • What do you do when your schedule is interrupted? Give an example of how you handle it. • Describe a time when you did not meet a deadline and what the outcome was. • Tell me how the urgent demands of your job don’t overshadow the important ones. SHARE FOR THE 3RD PART