Grokking the Behavioral Interview

Wondering what is a behavioral interview? This course helps you ace your behavioral interview by understanding what questions to expect and how to respond.

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Wondering what is a behavioral interview? This course helps you ace your behavioral interview by understanding what questions to expect and how to respond.

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This course includes

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Course Overview

Many times, it’s not your technical competency that holds you back from landing your dream job, it’s how you perform on the behavioral interview. Whether you’re a software engineer, product manager, or engineering manager, this course will give you the tools to thoroughly prepare for behavioral and cultural questions. But beyond even technical roles, this would be useful for anyone, in any profession. As you progress, you'll be able to use Educative's new video recording widget to record yourself answerin...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Management

Prepare For Interview

Behavioral Interview

Course Content

Why Prepare?

This chapter covers why interview preparation matters, staying authentic, treating everyone as an interviewer, and understanding behavioral interviews.

Why Prepare?Authenticity Everyone is an Interviewer The Purpose of Behavioral Interviews

Preparing/Homework

In this chapter, you'll learn to research an organization, practice listing values and experiences, use the STAR technique, and explore organizational culture.

Doing your Homework Exercise: List Organization Values Exercise: Create a List of Experiences The STAR Technique Exercise: STAR Technique Borrowing from other disciplines Be a Cultural Anthropologist

Patterns for Behavioral Questions

In this chapter, you’ll learn to recognize and answer behavioral, prior experience, hypothetical, and values-based interview questions with practice examples.

Recognizing Behavioral Interview Questions Prior Experience Questions Parsing Prior Experience Questions Sample Prior Experience Questions Exercise: Answering Prior Experience Questions Practice: Answering Prior Experience Questions Hypotheticals Practice: Answering Hypothetical Questions Values-Based Questions Asking Questions Good Questions to Ask Quiz: Test yourself

Interview Etiquette

This chapter covers interview etiquette: intros, cultural and phone interviews, body language, video conferences, handling mismatches, rejection, and practice.

Introducing Yourself Cultural Interview Phone interviews Techniques for phone interviews Body Language Body Language Techniques Video Conference Interviews Techniques for Video Conference Interviews Not an exact match? No problem!On Being Rejected Three different ways to practice

Conclusion and Quizzes!

This chapter includes a few practice problems to test your knowledge, an ending note, and acknowledgment of the authors for their valuable insights.

Conclusion Contributing Authors

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