Is “Behavioral Interviewing” a New Job Interviewing Technique?
by Carole Martin Published: 6/14/2009 PharmacyWeek Vol. XVIII – Issue 22 No, behavioral interviewing has been around since the 70’s when industrial psychologists developed a way of “accurately” predicting whether a person would succeed in a job. They concluded that if candidates were asked questions that requested examples of past behavior it would be an indicator of their future behavior. So, employers began using this interviewing technique to determine whether you were a good fit for the job. The technique is of growing interest to companies who would like to choose the “right” candidate, especially in today’s market with so many candidates for them to choose from. The types of questions that are asked using this technique are used to find out how and what you did in the past and the skill sets you used in the process – if you did it before you can do it again! The difference between a behavioral question and other questions is what the question asks for. A behavioral question will
