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 answering questions and assess your performance. By the time you’ve completed the course, you’ll be able to answer any behavioral question that comes your way – with confidence.

Course Content

1.Why Prepare?

Get familiar with the importance of preparation, authenticity, professionalism, and behavioral interview goals.

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

2.Preparing/Homework

Discover the logic behind effective interview prep, organization research, and cultural analysis.

• 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

3.Patterns for Behavioral Questions

Explore behavioral interview strategies, answer personal experience questions, handle hypotheticals, and ask insightful organizational 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

4.Interview Etiquette

Enhance your skills in effective interview etiquette, communication, and professional interactions.

• 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

5.Conclusion and Quizzes!

Take a closer look at practicing responses, self-reflection, authenticity, and meet key contributors.

• Conclusion
• Contributing Authors