Honesty is the best policy

Believe me, it is indeed the best policy. And when it comes down to job interviews, then you have to be honest at all times.

The greatest of skills and degrees cannot make up for your lack of honesty and integrity in the workplace. Trust me, your lack of honesty won’t get you anywhere in your professional life. Professional relationships are built on trust, and guess what it requires to build up INTEGRITY.

Now, let’s talk about the interview.

Interviewers use carefully composed interview question to understand the candidate more precisely and see whether his integrity meets the company’s requirements. The answers you give to those questions reflect your honesty and integrity. Remember, those answers should come out naturally and not rehearsed.

“What is something you feel you should have done differently?”

“Tell me about a time you overcame a problem or challenge in the workplace?”

“What do you like to do in your spare time?”

Apparently, there are different kinds of honesty and integrity questions. Some questions will highlight you and your personality and some will show your work behavior.

Here are some questions of honesty and integrity about your personality and you:

1. How will you earn the trust of your colleagues?

2.How do you think others would describe you?

Behavioral job interview questions are often used by interviewers during job interviews. These types of strategic interview questions require you to provide the interviewer with an example situation that you experienced in professional work environments. Behavioral job interview questions focus on work situations that you experienced in the past and how you responded to them.

Some example of questions that’ll highlight your behavior in the workplace:

1.Tell me about a time when you had to admit a mistake to your coworkers.

2.What was the hardest challenge you faced in your career, and what action you did to solve it?

Enough with these questions, don’t you ever think, why do interviewers ask these kinds of questions in the first place.

For employers, establishing mutual trust with their employees is somewhat of a great goal to achieve. Furthermore, it’s the key to maintaining their company culture in the organization. This is the key reason why interviewers try to assess your personality and see if you’re honest, accurate, and reliable.