subject: Smart Answers To Interview Questions Can Help You Get Your Dream Job. [print this page] If you have an interview coming up you are probably scouring the net to find some sample interview questions, so that you can prepare your answers to interview questions. Unfortunately so is everyone else and quite frankly it is no longer enough.
Not only will you face standard interview questions but you are also likely to face behavioral interview questions . Employers have discovered that personality counts. They spend millions every year on personality profiling in order to predict your behavior and make better recruitment decisions.
What are behavioral interview questions?
In the broadest sense this is where the employer examines your previous behavior and from that predicts your future behavior in their environment.
These days they are more likely to use a personality test to achieve this. This is where you will be asked to fill in a rather strange looking questionnaire of apparent irrelevance and from that the employer will be provided with a report telling them all sorts of things about you. These are not the usual job interview question format.
A typical job interview question is something like "What kind of work experience do you have?" The personality questionnaire will not ask you anything that direct. The questions are usually multiple choices and a little odd. That's the nature of behavioral interview questions.
So how do you come up with smart answers to interview questions about behavior?
Well make sure you get your hands on your own personality report long before you attend any interviews. Being familiar with the content of these reports is half the battle. There are free services available on the net where you will be able to read your own report and behavioral interview questions specifically about your personality.
You see this is where the world has changed. You can give ten candidates the same question but be looking for very different answers depending on their personality. This is why it is no longer a simple case of trawling the net for some stock answers. The answers need to pertain to your personality.
A couple of years ago it was fine to just remember some stock answers but not today. More and more employers will be sitting with personality reports about you and will be expecting a specific type of answer to each job interview question. And this answer will be personality specific.
So if you really want to get a job offer in your next interview don't depend on articles like this from the Internet. If you can read it, so can every other candidate.
In today's climate you could be competing against hundreds of candidates, so if you get an interview you do not want to blow it because you couldn't be bothered doing a little more preparation.
Get your hands on some proper interview training that includes your personality report. Stock answers will not do. #END
Martin Gibbons
Founder of www.psychometricinterviews.com Get your free interview training on video.
