BEHAVIOR- AND SITUATION-BASED QUESTIONS Employers are increasingly incorporating behavior-based and situation-based questions in job interviews. Behavior-based means that the interviewer asks you to describe how you responded when you faced an actual situation. Situation-based questions ask you to imagine a situation and describe how you would act, what you would do, if that occurred. Be prepared to answer this types of behavior-based and situation-based questions: What would you do if…. In what situations have you become so involved in the work you were doing that the day flew by? If you were to encounter that same situation now, how would you deal with that person. If you had a choice of working our department A or department B, which would you choose? Why would you make that choice? Tell me about a recent time when you took responsibility for a task that was not part of our job description [the job you are interviewing for]. Tell me about a time when you took action without your supervisor’s prior approval. SOURCE: Adapted from Caryl and Ron Krannich, Ph.D.s, The Ex-Offender's Job Interview Guide (Manassas Park: Impact Publications), page 58. Copyright 2009. All rights reserved.