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Behavioral Interview - Behavioral Job Interview

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Behavioral Interviewing

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Definition: A behavioral interview is a job interview focused on discovering how an applicant acted in specific employment-related situations. The logic is that your past performance in the workplace will predict your future performance.

Instead of asking how you would behave, the interviewer will ask how you did behave. The interviewer wants to know how you handled a situation, instead of what you might do in a hypothetical situation.

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Also Known As: behavorial interviewing
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