To prepare for a winning interview you need a list of behavioral interview questions, including those specific to your occupation. Here’s how to build that list.

To turn job interviews into offers, you need to be ready to ace the behavioral questions, the ones that require you to tell a story. That takes preparation, practice, and a good, complete list of questions to work with.

Your list isn’t complete unless it includes two types of questions: general behavioral questions, and occupation-specific ones…

Well known fact: If two job candidates are about equally qualified and equally skilled in interviewing, but one of them conveys more enthusiasm–more passion, to use the current jargon–that’s the one who will get the job. But not everyone knows how to show enthusiasm in a job interview.

As an interview coach I’ve worked with many job seekers who initially said nothing about enjoying their work, loving their occupation, or being excited about anything. Most of these job seekers, I knew, felt passionate about their work; they just weren’t bringing it into their interviewing.
Often these were people in scientific or engineering professions, but not always.

Is it possible your interviews are lacking this key ingredient for success?

Before I became a career coach I was, at times, a job seeker. I was always a bit puzzled by the idea that I should “ask for the job” at the end of an interview.

How would that sound? “Will you give me this job, please?” Laughable.

Here’s what it’s really about, and how to do it.