Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Murphy covers leadership, hiring and employee engagement. What is a situational interview question? In short, situational ...

Did you freeze up the last time an interviewer opened a question with "Tell me about a time when…"? That's a behavioral interview question, and many interviewees find them tricky to handle. Job ...

Interviewing for a leadership position is one of the most important steps in a person’s career. The questions asked during these interviews are designed to uncover the candidate’s ability to ...

When being interviewed for a job, you’ll likely be asked a combination of question types, including traditional, situational, and behavioral. Out of all of these, behavioral questions have become one ...

How do you handle conflict? (i.e. How would you work with an upset individual?) How do you handle criticism? How would you deal with a difficult situation (i.e. disruptive participant, someone not ...

Job interviews can be stressful enough without having to field questions that cross professional boundaries. Some questions aren’t just uncomfortable-they’re actually illegal for employers to ask.

As the tech industry’s seemingly never-ending rounds of layoffs continue on and on, we’re all getting a lot more interested in acing job interviews. In a way, interviewing well is the most in-demand ...

With the new year underway employers are beginning to resume normal business activities and restart their hiring process. Similarly, many school and university graduates are beginning their job search ...

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