High-Impact Interview Questions: 701 Behavior-Based Questions to Find the Right Person for Every Job

It’s beyond useful when delivering Behavioral Based Interviewing. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel by coming up with “fit” questions for your company or the position. There are so many, I can’t imagine needing more than 700+ questions. I’ve been interviewing people for the past 20 years and always use this technique.

We have experimented with various approaches when it comes to assessing applicants during a screening call or an on-site interview. Since traditional and situational questions were apparently broken, our successful experiments revolved around behavioral-based questions. Coming up with specific examples is tough and time-consuming. The book provides a comprehensive list and helps determining competencies on a global and individual level.

Behavior type questions seem to be very popular during interviews these days. I was asked several when I was hired at my current job in IT last year and we asked them when recently interviewing candidates for another position where I work. The book is organized by qualities you want to focus on. As an interviewee I would go through the job description of any position I was applying for and pick out the qualities that seemed to be inherent in each of the job requirements. I would then go through the questions in the book dealing with those qualities and answer them based on my experience. As an interviewer I did the same thing, tailoring the questions to the experience of the person we were interviewing. A lot of these questions are available on the web but having it all in a book, organized by subject makes the small cost of the book well worth it in my opinion.

I bought this expecting to help me in the possible case of being on the job hunt again but as my unit is looking to grow, it was very enlightening to help be on the interviewer side of the table. This is a great tool to ensure getting better than simply "cookie cutter" answers to the age-old cookie cutter questions!

Great questions to ask. They focus on whatever competency you're looking for. I got this book because I became a supervisor and needed to start interviewing people. This book help me a lot.

I found myself skipping sentences because she was repeating what has already been said (seriously a pet peeve of mine; unsure if the perspective was to repeat repeat and maybe it will sink in). Otherwise, helpful for me as my department looks to change our interview questions and style.

Best interview question book on the market. They get right to the heart of what I'm looking for in a new employee. I have great results from these.

I usually often fall in some all traditional interview questions, taht came up sometime might not even relevant with topic we need to know from a candidate. Behavioral interview questions had been introduced quite some years ago, but without asking the precisely correct question, sometimes candidate fall on answering worngly, causing me captured wrong preception of that person, which cost on recruitment process. Author had make me much more easy on how to ask precise Behavioral based question, and some thecning of probing to help us the dig deeper of candidate answer, and found it very useful to understand one person during the interview process.

Needed to run a series of interviews lately and previously I've struggled to come up with questions. No more! This book is brilliant for explaining how to craft good interview questions and then it gives you 701 example broken down by job role. Great book.

It's a good book for HR professionals who want to refresh their understanding of BEI. May not be a great book if you already have an understanding of BEI

It is ok if you are searching interview questions. I like book, but is not fit what I was searching. It is not fault of book, is not matching my expectatives.

Excellent book for any HR professional. It's a must-read.

It is easy to use, to the point and effective. What more could you want? I would definitely recommend this book.