'behavioural' interview with orange. help!

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Right so at last i've finally got a face to face interview with someone! god only knows how i got it since they actualy woke me up for the phone interview! i totally screwed it up, and i mean i REALLY did! :o but im not complaining.

anyway, apparently the interview is a 'behavioural' one.

In your interview, you’ll come across a style of interviewing called ‘behavioural’. It simply means we’ll ask you questions about previous situations and experiences, focusing not just on what you did, but how and why you did it too.
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Anyone who has had a similar style interview, or even one with orange give me some indication as to what sort of questions im gonna get asked so i can prepare myself. I dont want to be umm'ing and arr'ing like i was on the phone interview! (hence im so surprised i go through to a face to face)

tia

alec
 
A couple of questions I got asked in an interview recently:
- Give an example of when you have had to use your leadership qualities.
- Give an example of some team work you have participated in and what you gave to the team.
 
This is a method of interviewing that is becoming very popular. It's on the basis of past performance being the best indicator of future success.
There is very little prep you can do for these other than think of examples of where you have excelled in the past.
 
We use this, an example of one we ask

Can you give an example of a recent change that has happened in your role.
- How did you feel about that change
- How did you manage that change
 
Ad lib it me thinks,

but thing is i have very very little experiance. what should i say if they ask something which i have no experiance of?
 
Then be honest about it, but give some thought about how you would deal with that situation and answer accordingly.
 
allllec said:
Ad lib it me thinks,

but thing is i have very very little experiance. what should i say if they ask something which i have no experiance of?
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Just try and think of a personal situation which is similar. Doesn't have to be in a professional environment.
 
I sat one... there was no questions, just four words and out of the four words you choice the one that describe you the best. it confussed the hell out of me, as i didn't know the mean of some of them.
 
Cool.

I just wanted to double check some dates for my last employment, so i figure i inputed them onto orange site so i went looking on there. on the CV upload page it shows my cv.doc i uploaded.. but also shows another file..

"Alec Russell reading Oracle fail.doc", cant download it and see what it is, but like thats really unprofessional if you ask me becuase i certainly did not upload it ! rekon its my letter of rejection already prewritten ? :eek: :(
 
You are entitled to read any information a company hold about you.
I'd be requesting that file if I were you.
 
Well, after my first interview being prosponed a week i just got a call saying the postition has already been filled all together! woo. lol. Nearly upto 30 job apps in the last couple of months now. :( its not even like im aiming high lol
 
I had an interview with Orange on friday, its basically questions like;

* Give me an example of when you came accross a situation that was more complex than it first seemed and how you overcame it.

* Give an example of when you went out of your way and/or above your remit to help a customer.

What position were you applying for with Orange?
 
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maybe things like "why did you run out of that shop with a certain expensive guitar?" - best not to answer with "I was wasted and it's a cool guitar".

:p
 
think yourselves lucky.......you should see the stuff we have to go through from the airlines!
 
This used to be referred to as "competency-based interviewing" and is the most annoying guff I've ever encountered. It stems from the pseudo-science named psychology, and is just as worthless.

To answer well is to be seen as arrogant and full of oneself, and to answer poorly is to be seen as having low self-esteem/confidence. Sack of cack, much like the infuriating, constantly smiling gits who pose the questions.
 
Perhaps these interviews are really a test of your patience. If you can remain polite to the interviewers, you can remain polite to equally annoying and stress-inducing customers.

My employer now gives two interviews lasting up to two hours each to applicants for bottom-end minimum wage jobs in a bingo club. What is the point?
 
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