{"id":9166,"date":"2020-04-29T15:48:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterindia.com\/career-advice\/7-behavioral-interview-questions-and-tips-on-how-to-answer-them-9166\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T10:38:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T05:08:23","slug":"7-behavioral-interview-questions-and-tips-on-how-to-answer-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foundit.sg\/career-advice\/7-behavioral-interview-questions-and-tips-on-how-to-answer-them\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Behavioral Interview Questions and Tips on How to Answer Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The objective of behavioral questions is to get a sense of your personality.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behavioral questions are asked in interviews to understand a candidate\u2019s personality<\/a> and also to analyse his or her behavior in different situations. These behavioral questions can be challenging to answer in an interview if you have not prepared for them.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During an interview, at times you may have observed that the interviewer pays you the least attention while you keep on answering. This could be because the interviewer is bored or it is a ploy to test you as part of a behavioral interview.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the list of some common behavioral interview questions<\/a> and the way you can answer them.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1. Describe your most important decision, that you\u2019ve taken in the past six months?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How to answer:<\/strong> Such questions are asked to check your reasoning, problem solving, judgement, and risk-taking ability. Your answer to such a question can make an impression about your professional skills in the mind of the interviewer. Here is your chance to explain to the interviewer how you took some crucial decisions in your professional career and the impact it had. The impact could be qualitative or quantitative.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Tell me about any incidence or a mistake that you regret in your professional life and what you did to rectify the situation?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How to answer:<\/strong> Here, the interviewer wants to judge a candidate\u2019s receptiveness and ability to deal with errors. Such questions are asked to know how a candidate deals with flaws and does he learn from his mistakes or not. The best way to answer such a question is to tell if you made any mistake in your professional life and then add how you rectified and learned from that situation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. When was the last time when a customer or a co-worker got upset from you? How did you deal with that?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How to answer:<\/strong> This is a question that will help an interviewer to judge you on your interpersonal skills and conflict management. Such questions can usually be answered well if you have read about the company\u2019s culture as you should always align your answer with the company\u2019s culture. Answer the interviewer, explaining the situation, and telling him what impact or benefit, it created for you in the long term.
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