Behavioral Based Interview Does Not Present a True Reflection of a Candidate's Ability to Excel in Any Position

Team PRO “The behavior-based interview does not present a true reflection of a candidate's ability to excel in any position”

1. Opening Statement

We are going to prove that the behavioral based interview does not present a true reflection of a candidate's ability to excel in any position.

What’s the behavioural interview?

It is interview which is based on discovering how candidate acted in specific employment-related situation. The logic is that how you behaved in the past will predict how you will behave in the future. Basically, past performance predicts future performance.

In a behavioral interview candidate will have to demonstrate knowledge, skills, and abilities, collectively known as competencies. The interviewer wants to know, not that candidate can do something, but that he or she have done it.

Our first argument is about how can you rely on the assumption that someone repeats a certain behaviour when he/she face the certain situation?

For example, if a person come to an interview and tell the interviewer about the job-related situations that happened to him/her in the past; and the interviewer decided to hire the candidate because he or she heard the answers he wanted to hear. So what’s happening if you are not able to repeat that behaviour in a certain job-situation later on?

We are all students in the classroom, and some of us do not have any work experience. How does a person suppose to answer these questions regarding to past experience if he/she don’t have any? Even if someone thinks that classroom experience is the same thing as a work experience, it is not like that.

The second point is that it is quite easy to prepare for the behaviour-based interview.

There is a huge number of materials which can be used to prepare for the behavioural interview, for example Google have more than one million results to this question. There is also a wide range of books, articles and videos related to this topic. Of course, we don’t...