INTERACTIVE COURSE

Grokking the Behavioral Interview

Beginner

36 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

5 Quizzes

37 Illustrations

Course Overview

Many times, it’s not your technical competency that holds you back from landing your dream job, it’s how you perform on the behavioral interview. Whether you’re a software engineer, product manager, or engineering manager, this course will give you the tools to thoroughly prepare for behavioral and cultural questions. But beyond even technical roles, this would be useful for anyone, in any profession. As you progress, you'll be able to use Educative's new video recording widget to record yourself answerin...Show More

Course Content

Why Prepare?

Why Prepare?Authenticity Everyone is an Interviewer The Purpose of Behavioral Interviews

Preparing/Homework

Doing your Homework Exercise: List Organization Values Exercise: Create a List of Experiences The STAR Technique Exercise: STAR Technique Borrowing from other disciplines Be a Cultural Anthropologist

Patterns for Behavioral Questions

Recognizing Behavioral Interview Questions Prior Experience Questions Parsing Prior Experience Questions Sample Prior Experience Questions Exercise: Answering Prior Experience Questions Practice: Answering Prior Experience Questions Hypotheticals Practice: Answering Hypothetical Questions Values-Based Questions Asking Questions Good Questions to Ask Quiz: Test yourself

Interview Etiquette

Introducing Yourself Cultural Interview Phone interviews Techniques for phone interviews Body Language Body Language Techniques Video Conference Interviews Techniques for Video Conference Interviews Not an exact match? No problem!On Being Rejected Three different ways to practice

Conclusion and Quizzes!

Conclusion Contributing Authors

COURSE AUTHOR

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