How to Conduct a Structured Behavioral Interview
A structured behavioural interview is one of the most widely used data collection tools in the field of research. It has a lot of strengths as it contributes to the validity, reliability, legal defensibility and fairness of the research. Besides, it helps to minimise the limitation of researcher’s interference and biasness as all the questions are pre-defined and structured. Moreover, there are many types of structured behavioural interviews which are conducted by the researcher according to their field of interest. In addition, these interviews are also conducted by different firms and companies for job recruitment. If you are looking forward to conduct a good structured interview, you can take help from the given steps.
Instructions
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First of all, you have to decide the type of your structured behavioural interview. The questions in a structured interview can be divided in the four main dimensions which include job knowledge, background, hypothetical and actual past behaviour of an individual. The job knowledge part is extremely important as you will judge the knowledge, skills and abilities of an individual about a particular job. The background part of the interview focuses on the work experience and education of the individuals. In the third part, different hypothetical situations are presented to the interviewee and his answers are interpreted to judge his perception and behaviour regarding his or her surroundings. In the last part, the individuals are asked about their actual past events to assess their mental abilities and behavioural traits.
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You must divide the questions in their respective sections so that you can easily ask them to the interviewee without facing any kind of trouble during the interview. Furthermore, you must assign the appropriate weights to your questions so that you can easily quantify them afterwards.
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If you are planning to conduct the interview with a panel of judges, you must rotate the questionnaire amongst all the members so that they can easily become acquainted with all the questions and can judge the behaviours of the individuals from their answers.
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It will be better for you to discuss all the questions with the members who will conduct the interview. In this way, you will able to rectify the mistakes in the questionnaires.
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At the completion of the interview, you must check whether the interview has given answers to all the questions or not.
