Behavioral interviewing is a common practice in interviews today. Employers want to know what potential employees have experienced or what their reaction to situations are. The questions I am looking at include: Tell me About how you worked effectively under pressure, what do you do if you disagree with someone at work, give an example of how you worked on a team, have you ever made a mistake if yes how did you handle it and have you handled a difficult situation, How? These are all potential questions that employers could ask in a behavioral interview. I have learned to work effectively under pressure in many of my jobs, but the one I learned the most from was Dairy Queen. Often on busy nights at a Dairy Queen the inside line is out the door …show more content…
I realized that we happen to have blank cakes in the back that were plain and needed to be decorated. I apologized to the customer asked if they could come back in an hour and it would be ready then. After the customer agreed to come back in an hour, I decorated one of the cakes from the back the way the customer wanted. When the customer came back to pick up the cake I gave it to her at a discounted price and apologized for the mistake. The customer was appreciative of my efforts to correct the problem and thanked me. When I refereed soccer in high school, I made a call that a coach didn’t like. This was a PreK soccer game and I was surprised by the reaction of the coach. The coach yelled at me and used some profanity. I calmly told him that the call was in the rule book. When he continued, I went and got my supervisor and asked for help with the matter. My supervisor stepped in and the coach apologized. These questions are all examples of what employers could ask in a behavioral interview and how I would answer them. I think it is important to be prepared to answer questions like these in interviews so you are not stumbling trying to find the right answer. Employers are looking for honesty and to see how potential employees handle
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2015) report that the costs related to using personality tests are that the questions may not completely relate to the job. In addition, the questions may come off as very invasive to some test takers (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2015). Furthermore, the costs of utilizing personality tests
Coming into work one day, I knew something was wrong. When I saw long lines forming down each Isle, people complaining that the wait was too long, and register lights flashing for help. There were no head cashiers available or supervisors who knew anything about the front end. At that time I was the only cashier who had been there the longest, so I was asked to try and be head cashier for the day. I did, and I knew what I was getting myself into.
Interview Techniques: First start with informal and see what I can get out of them by just simply asking questions. When and if I get nowhere or become feeling like I am being lied to or
You will interview a friend or family member who is elderly, a child, or who has a developmental disability, about an event or incident in his or her daily life. Summarize the story they tell you and identify the set of interview techniques that you utilized. Explain why you used these interview techniques. Discuss what considerations you took into account prior to interviewing this individual.
Interviews are very popular among most individuals especially researchers and scholars as they attempt to obtain information and data from an interviewee. However, there are many factors that influence the interview and which determines its success or failure. Often, the interviewer takes charge of the situation, and they have the sole responsibility of asking the questions while the interviewee provides an explanation or an answer to the question asked. As a result, an interview can be defined as a consultation or a discussion in person through which information and data are exchanged regarding a particular phenomenon event with the intention of establishing the interviewee’s position. It is easy to tell the mood and success of the interview
On November 27, 2016, I sat down with Dee for a face-to-face interview about her physical, cognitive, social, and spiritual development as a middle-aged adult. Dee is a fifty-three-year-old married women with two children: an eighteen-year-old son and a twenty-one-year-old daughter. The interview was conducted in Dee’s household in Chambers, Nebraska.
Motivational interviewing is an important tool to utilize when assisting clients with the process of change. The goal of motivational interviewing is to help an individual see their own potential and to gain the desire for change. It helps the individual explore their current situation and what their future may look like, from there they can decide whether it is worth making that change. For this assignment, my partner Jenessa and I each took a turn being a interviewer and a client. When I was the motivator, Jenessa acted as a women who was in need to go through a detox program in order to get a new liver. It was a big transition in her life, and she was struggling to come into terms with that. In the interview, we discussed her progress thus far, what her goals are, and how she can implement change.
During the analysis phase, the interviewer uses several techniques to observe and analyze the subject's behavior “to determine the subject's truthful and deceptive behaviors or at least to determine those areas most sensitive to the subject and, therefore, in need of further attention through verbal inquiry” (Walters 3). Walters describes four fundamental stages of the interview: (1) orientation, (2) narration, (3) cross-examination, and (4) resolution (Id. at 25-29).
The ethnographic interview was quite different from anything I have ever done due to the fact that I have never done it before. Going into the interview I became a little hesitant and nervous and a little judgmental about the interviewee. To point out, when going into an interview it is always nerve-wracking because the interviewer has to be aware of the differences that lie ahead and trying to overstep boundaries. My experiences as an interviewer were worrisome because I have never been in such a position. I have always been an interviewee instead of being an interviewer. Being an interviewer is difficult because I’m going into the process blind. The position of being an interviewer gives me a looking glass feel on how the interview process develops.
Interviews can be conducted in several different ways. There are positive and negative things an interviewer can do during the interview verbally, as well as non-verbally. In the video “An Overview of Investigative Interviewing” an older lady is interviewed as a victim, pertaining to a crime where she was thrown to the ground and robbed of her purse. This paper will reflect on the verbal and non-verbal usage the interviewer used, the specific interview technique style used, and an evaluation based on the seven steps he took during the interview process.
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2. What personality characteristics are likely required for this career? How does you own personality match/not match?
I must remember to stay away from the double barrel questions. I also need to avoid utilizing questions that begin with “have you” and “are you”. When interviewing clients, I should focus on using open-ended questions to allow the client to tell their story in their own way, and minimize the use of close-ended questions, unless they are necessary to gain specific information.
Juliana is a normal 15-year-old girl in high school. Her primary occupations at her age are daughter, sister, and student. She lives in a household of 4 with 1 younger sister, both of her parents, and a cat. Juliana has a close relationship with her younger sister and she told me that “I’m her role model” when her parents are away. Some of her strengths are, she is an honor student who is currently enrolled in a special program in her high school called the International Bachelorette Program (IB). It is two-year program that challenges high school students and gives them an idea of what college is like after they graduate. She is an intelligent student to be at her level. She is always prepared and ready to start her day in school by being