35 Behavioural Questions for A Job Interview

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Below you can find 35 behavioural questions I collated to help me during my search for a new job. If you will be prepared to answer each and one of them, most probably slight variations of the questions will not create you a problem.

1. Tell me about a time you were not able to meet a time commitment. What prevented you from meeting it? What was the outcome and what did you learn from it?

2. Describe a long-term project that you managed. How did you keep everyone moving along in a timely manner?

3. Give me an example of a time when you set a goal and were not able to meet or achieve it.

4. Tell me about a time you had to quickly adjust your work priorities to meet changing demands.

5. Give me an example when you had to push back to HQ or challenged a decision.

6. Tell me about the toughest decision you’ve had to make in the past six months.

7. Tell me about a decision that you regret.

8. What did you do when you needed to motivate a group of individuals.

9. Tell me about a time you stepped up into a leadership role.

10. Do you collaborate well?

11. Describe a situation when you negotiated with others in your organisation to reach an agreement.

12. We’ve all had to work with people that don’t like us. How well do you manage difficult colleagues and customers?

13. We all make mistakes we wish we could take back. Tell me about a time you wish you’d handled a situation differently with a colleague.

14. Tell me about the last time you had to apologise to someone.

15. Give me an example of a time you faced a conflict while working on a team. How did you handle that?

16. Tell me about a time when you received negative feedback from your manager. How did you respond?

17. Tell me about a time when you missed an obvious solution to a problem.

18. Tell me about a time when you faced a problem that had multiple possible solutions.

19. Tell me about a time when you came up with a new approach to a problem.

20. Describe a time when you anticipated potential problems and developed preventive measures.

21. Describe a situation in which you found a creative way to overcome an obstacle.

22. Have you ever leveraged data to develop a strategy? Describe the context in which it happened.

23. Tell me about a time when you were 75% through a project, and you had to pivot strategy.

24. Tell me about a time when you had to choose between technologies for a project.

25. Tell me about a time you had to deal with ambiguity.

26. What’s the most innovative new idea that you have implemented?

27. Describe a time when you sacrificed short term goals for long term success.

28. Provide an example of when you personally demonstrated ownership.

29. What’s your greatest strength?

30. What’s your biggest weakness?

31. We all deal with difficult customers from time to time. Tell me about a challenging client-facing situation and how you handled it.

32. Is the customer important to you? Why? How do you show customer obsession?

33. Tell me about a time you recovered from a difficult situation.

34. Tell me about a time you failed and what you learned from it.

35. Why us?

I wish you good luck with your job hunting.