Comment on Job application or high school test?
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks agoThis is 100% what I went through for my gov job, way back. It was dumb then, and it’s dumb now.
And they still do that. One of my contract peers got a gov spot a few years ago, and I guess making everyone do that rinkydink shit is how they kept it ‘fair’.
I seem to hear of this ‘behavioural’ style a lot at unionized shops, and I really think it’s to avoid challenges and backlash.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I took a class on behavioral interviewing back when I was a food service general manager. It was very different from the question on the form above. I had to interview a lot of people. Hundreds over the years.
The essence of behavioral interviewing is actually very simple.
Rather than ask “Can you tell me about your leadership abilities?”
You ask “Can you tell me about a time when you used your leadership abilities to overcome a program?”
Most of the time they will answer as if you asked the first question. Let them finish or wait for a pause, then say “What I’d really like to know is if you can tell me about one example of when you used your leadership abilities.”
You can encourage them to provide an answer by saying “This doesn’t have to be about work, it could be from a family situation, something from your community life, or something from school.”
I think it is very effective.