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Textbook chapter 8

Textbook chapter 8

Q Think of a typical job interview question and transform it into a situational question as in the example below from the chapter: A situational or behavioral interview asks candidates to show how they work instead of talking about it. Here’s how it goes. Instead of asking an applicant, “Do you stay cool under pressure?” (the correct response is “yes”), the question gets sharpened this way: You know how jobs are when you need to deal with the general public: you’re always going to get the lady who had too much coffee, the guy who didn’t sleep last night and he comes in angry and ends up getting madder and madder…at you. Tell me about a time when something like this actually happened to you. What happened? How did you deal with it?

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I had been interviewed by one of my interviewers in the past being asked about mediating a situation in which an employee had to be tackled for being a regular latecomer to office. I had been asked to enact as the manager and handle such a situation so that I could do the right thing. I had been surprised and had also been nervous. This is because I had though that the interviewer will tell me to talk and explain about my actions. However, when I had been told to act and show the interviewer, had taken some time to prepare myself.