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Situational Interview

A Situation Interview is a technique that asks the job applicant to explain how they would behave under a variety of situations or work scenarios.  A situational interview might also involve problem solving questions to evaluate the applicant's ability to think logically or creatively.  For example, the applicant might be asked to figuring out the number of telephone booths in New York City.

The situational interview might also involve describing a scenario to the applicant and asking them to describe how they would handle the problem if they were in charge.  Another form of situational interview questions may ask the applicant to describe how they handled a situation in the past.  For example a scenario described at the interview could be something like:

Describe a time when you were faced with an approaching deadline and there did not appear to be enough time to get the work completed.

This last technique is founded on the theory that job applicants that have successfully handled certain situations in the past will do so in the future.

Other forms of this term include - situational interviewing, situational interviews

 
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