12 Must-See Links for Employers Interested in Behavioral Interview Questions

If you are a recruiter, hiring manager or interviewer who needs to learn more about using behavioral interview questions you should check-out these links below.

I did what you would do if you had the time. I looked at the top 200 sites that Google gave me when I searched behavioral interview questions. I came up with these top 12 for employers.

There are many posts on the internet dealing with behavioral questions. 94% of them teach candidates how to deal with behavioral questions from interviewers.

This list is specifically designed to help employers learn more about behavioral interviewing.

1. 4 Vital Interview Questions to Ask – A fine resource for preparing for and asking behavioral questions. Each question is accompanied by: Purpose, Warning sign, Decent sign, and Great sign.

2. How to Master Asking Behavioral Questions – Nicely written LinkedIn page walks you through the fundaments of using behavioral interviewing. We prefer our PAR system of follow-up questions.

3. The Hidden Flaw In Behavioral Questions – Behavioral questions can be written in a manner that telegraphs to the candidate exactly what you are looking for. This site explains how to structure a behavioral question properly.

4. Behavior Interview Questions Generator– Offered by the Kansas Department of Administration, provides an automated method of generating behavioral questions in 49 competencies. Each competency is supplied with many questions to select from.

5. Behavioral Interview Question Database – Clean list of general behavioral questions in 8 competencies.

6. 10 Behavioral Questions to Help You Choose Employees Wisely – Half are behavioral questions. The other half are hypothetical. Both are good questions.

7. Behavioral Interviewing – This is a California Department of Human Resources website. It provides a thorough, nuts-to-bolts description of behavioral interviewing both from the employer perspective and the candidate perspective. Enlightening.

8. Behavioral Based Interview Sample Questions List – A list of 25 behavioral questions in six competencies.

9. The Revealing Power of Behavioral Questions – A Staffing Stream article written by our CEO, John Boring. The definitive guide to how to turn “Tell me about yourself” into a behavioral interview question.

10. A Guide to Hiring the Right Employee: Behavioral Interview Questions - A helpful guide posted on LinkedIn for those at most levels of understanding behavioral questions.

11. Behavioral Interview Questions: the TRAPS - Behavioral interviewing has its weaknesses just like any other tool. Here are three traps that we should all be on the lookout for.

12. Talentron Interview Management System – Humbly, this is our own website where we provide tons of free information about behavioral interviewing in our product pages and blogs. Great source of ideas for hiring the top salespeople. We do rate much higher than the bottom of the list. But, we wanted to give you everyone else first.

The Takeaway

There are many persuasive  benefits of using behavioral questions in interviews. If you are sold on behavioral interviewing but want to learn more about this powerful tool you now have the resources to do so.

Do you know of other helpful resources for employers to learn about behavioral interviewing? Please share.