Behavioral interview is a kind of interview where an
employer asks questions to check if applicant has enough past experience and
skills and if he can perform well in his company on bases of his past
experience and skills. He check applicant’s behavior if he can perform his
duties well by having good interaction with other employees. Most of people
don’t know what a behavioral interview is and which questions will be asked
from them. They find best Kuwait job vacancies and reach there for interview without
preparing behavioral interview. This article will explore tips that will be
helpful in preparing behavioral interview in best way.
First and most asked questions about behavioral interviews
are related with teamwork and leadership skills. An employer who takes your
interview, asks questions to examine if you have any experience of working as
team member or team leader of any project or any office work. You should answer
these questions properly. If you were a team member then you will need to tell
your employer how you played your role well and how much your team leader or
supervisors were impressed by your work. You should tell him about steps that
you took to maintain your team and taking best output from them if you were a
team leader.
Second type of questions that are asked mostly are conflict
management based questions where employer seeks how much you are able to manage
different conflicts. He can ask from you how much you were interacted with
clients and how much tricky situations you faced. He can ask you some examples
of those situations and how you covered those situations. Here you will need to
tell him in details why you had to face those situations and which skills you
utilized to get rid of those situations. You will need to tell him those
decisions that played best role in managing those conflicts.
Remember that each employer looks for those employees that
have abilities of problem solving. So to test your abilities, he can ask
different problem solving questions from you. You should be prepared about this
because these questions may be related with your skills and may be based on
natures of job vacancies in Kuwait. For example, if you are a computer
programmer, he can put a situation in front of you where a code gives error and
he asks from you to give your opinions to solve these errors. You should
provide a best answer that should justify your problem solving skills in best
way.
There are many employers who want to know how many times
their employees had failed in past so that ask questions to know about
situations in which their employees had failed. Your employer can ask from you
tell me your worst experience or tell me what was your biggest failure
according to your nature of job or skills. Here you should be careful because
you will never have to show your weakness. If you had faced any failure then
you should describe it in a way that may build your positive image, not
negative.