{"id":24161,"date":"2013-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wwwebdesignstudios.com\/client05\/conducting-behavioral-event-interviews\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:05:16","slug":"conducting-behavioral-event-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wwwebdesignstudios.com\/client05\/conducting-behavioral-event-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Conducting Behavioral Event Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"STEP 3 – DATA COLLECTION<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A Behavioral Event Interview<\/strong> is a 1 to 1\u00bd hour interview, in which the interviewee is asked to provide highly detailed accounts of how he\/she approached 4-7 important accomplishments or other key events from the past year or two in the job. The interviewer uses a probing strategy to get the interviewee to walk through the sequence of what he\/she did, said and thought at key points during each accomplishment or event.<\/p>\n

The Behavioral Event Interview is usually conducted with superior performers. The assumption underlying the interview is that studying the interviewee\u2019s actions, thoughts and words in these key situations will reveal underlying competencies responsible for superior performance.<\/p>\n

For the analysis, each interview is tape recorded and transcribed. An analyst carefully reads each transcript and notes passages evidencing effective behaviors or thought patterns. These passages are noted on index cards or a spreadsheet template, along with the interviewee\u2019s initials and the transcript page and line number. The analysts classify the themes by using a conceptual framework of generic competencies and behavioral indicators. The analysts then meet to review the evidence from their individual analysis and to identify competencies and behavioral indicators for the competency model. This process usually demonstrates that the superior performers used certain generic competencies and behavioral indicators from the conceptual framework used to classify the themes. But the process often reveals new behavioral indicators and competencies that were not part of the original conceptual framework.<\/p>\n

\"\"Typical Structure of a Behavioral Event Interview<\/strong><\/h2>\n