I just failed HR interview for failing to answer questions like "what is your biggest achievement" concretely. Why are these questions important?

There are many ways on which the HR analyse the abilities but the most common are behavioral and situational based. The behavioral questions are included in your interview in order to get a preview of your future actions using the examples from your past. Therefore, your behavior in certain situations in previous job can be a reliable indicator of what your actions will be in the future

In every interview there are certain important aspects on which the question- answer round is conducted where the main motive of the interview is to ensure the candidate to be suitable for the job or not.

There are many ways on which the HR analyse the abilities but the most common are behavioral and situational based. The behavioral questions are included in your interview in order to get a preview of your future actions using the examples from your past. Therefore, your behavior in certain situations in previous job can be a reliable indicator of what your actions will be in the future.

It is an amazing fact to know that about 80% of the interviews are behavior based.

There is quite a bit of difference between the behavior type questions and the standard interview questions, as the former focuses majorly on your experiences, skills, abilities, knowledge and behaviors. Therefore, instead of a standard interview question, which is “Do you have leadership skills?” a behavioral question will be more like “Share an experience which illustrates your leadership qualities.”

There are ways of tackling such questions for which not the same but a similar question is generally being asked in the interviews; When you successfully completed a challenge??, can be taken as an example here.

Your work environment can be full of thrills. You may be having a hard time managing your relation with the boss or you may be stuck with a very tough task to complete the project, it is still very important to face a challenge when thrown at you.

If you dig back into your past, you can find so many instances where you have successfully won a challenge fair and square, but, do not lie about climbing Mount Everest or living in a jungle for a week just to taste the wildlife, be simple and do not create a movie plot in an interview.

Instead, try narrating a real-life instance from your life when you faced a challenge and you did everything in your power to overcome that challenge. You can talk about how you worked at a very less paying part-time job to pay your college fees or maybe about the time where you met the work deadline when it was impossible to do so. These simple stories are enough to get you around the behavioral corner and continue the interview smoothly.