What else does Behavioral Interviewing provide?
• Behavioral Interviewing focuses on the applicant’s past actions and behaviors rather than subjective impressions that can sometimes be misleading enabling interviewers to make more accurate hiring decisions. • Behavioral interviewing, when approached properly, reduces the chance of potential bias or discrimination. • Behavioral interviewing is successful with regard to job relatedness, has a higher return on investment, and is more legally defensible than other types of interviewing. In fact, behavioral interviewing is said to be 55 percent predictive of future on-the-job behavior, while traditional interviewing is only ten percent predictive (*Career Center of the University of Notre Dame, Janz, Hellervik, & Gilmore, 1986 ). The problem with many interviews is their failure to provide useful information. Too often, a candidate walks out the door leaving behind good impressions, but little real information. When a manager asks whatever comes to mind, in an unstructured manner, it is
