Why is behavioral interviewing effective?

It provides reliable insights into candidate performance based on real experiences.

What techniques are used in behavioral interviews?

Common techniques include the STAR method and competency-based questioning.

Who should attend behavioral interview training?

HR professionals, recruiters, and hiring managers.

How does it reduce hiring bias?

It standardizes evaluation criteria and focuses on evidence-based answers.

Behavior Based Interviewing Skills Training

Q: What is behavior based interviewing training?

It trains hiring managers to assess candidates based on past behavior and real-life examples.

Behavior Based Interviewing Skills Training that Works: Make Better Hiring Decisions. Minimize Risk. Strengthen Your Talent Advantage.

“We asked LSA to improve the behavioral interviewing capabilities of our managers to increase the probability of both hiring top talent and future leaders who fit. LSA designed a highly customized solution for our unique business and culture.

I would highly recommend LSA Global as a trusted and top quality partner to help hire top talent that fits.”
Rae Phillips | HR Project Manager | Polycom

Behavior Based Interviewing Skills Training Program
Smart hiring starts with smart interviewing. Behavior-based interviewing gives you the structure, skills, and confidence to identify the right talent for the right roles — while reducing hiring bias and increasing retention. When applied consistently, these methods not only improve individual hiring outcomes but also strengthen organizational performance over time.

Are you hiring the top talent that fits and excels in your unique culture?
Is the hiring process too long or complex?
Does your hiring or selection process lack consistency?
Are you making hiring or interviewing mistakes?
Is first or second year employee attrition too high?

According to Harvard Business Review, up to 50% of all executive hires end in firing or resignation. Why? Success today depends increasingly on intangible competencies — like teamwork and cross-cultural literacy — rarely found on resumes.

Our Behavior-Based Interviewing Skills Training is a research-backed, interactive seminar designed to equip hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers with the skills, tools, and confidence to make effective hiring decisions for their unique strategy and culture. Built on the widely accepted premise that past and current behavior best predict future performance and job fit, this customized training empowers interviewers to go beyond gut feel and resumes.

Done right, behavioral interviewing reduces hiring risk and increases the odds of selecting high-performing, culture-aligned candidates. The result? Stronger hires who fit in, stay, and perform.

Using behavioral core competencies, participants learn how to:

Align job requirements with hiring profiles.
Frame interviews around targeted behavioral indicators.
Ask compliant, competency-focused questions.
Probe effectively for both technical expertise and cultural fit.
Make balanced, evidence-based hiring decisions.

Interactive and Practical
Most of the session is dedicated to real-time practice — questioning techniques, role-plays, and peer/instructor feedback — so participants leave with the interviewing skills they can apply immediately. Interviewers also receive tools to help maintain legal compliance and consistency in their hiring process.

Target Audience
Hiring managers, recruiters, and individuals who interview internal or external candidates.

Behavior Based Interviewing Skills Training for Better Hiring Decisions

Core Behavioral Interviewing Modules
The interviewing training program teaches basic concepts and proven techniques in areas:

Interviewing Concepts & Process
Identify key behavioral core competencies and learn how to hold effective job interviews using proven techniques that uncover behavior-based competencies.
Interview Questions
Learn how to evaluate a candidate’s competencies by employing various proven questioning methods. Participate in role plays to practice what you learned and receive feedback.
Interview Decision
Make a sound hiring decision that fits with your Job Candidate Profile.

Optional Interviewing Training Modules

How to Reduce Unconscious Bias
Proven techniques to objectively assess each candidate for their unique skills and talents.
How to Conduct Effective Virtual Interviews
Proven techniques to conduct virtual interviews.
Hiring Simulations for High Stakes Candidates
If you have critical leadership, managerial, or sales hires and want to combine artificial intelligence and behavioral science technology to take your hiring to the next level, please check out:— Leadership Simulation Assessments for High Stakes Hires
— Midlevel Director Competency Assessments
— People Manager Assessment Center
— Sales Rep Assessment Simulation

To speak with an LSA Expert to learn about behavior based interviewing skills training program customization and delivery options onsite at your company, please contact us about interviewing training.

Related Information

We partnered with LSA to pilot a customized behavioral interviewing program to help ensure that we continue to hire the best and brightest as we continue to rapidly scale. LSA’s ability to understand our business and our unique culture combined with their desire to ensure that the best practices will be highly adopted by our people is a real blessing.

Most other firms want to just ‘give you training.’ Not LSA, they are focused on helping me hit our hiring forecasts and attract top talent. I highly recommend them.

Jennifer Remling
Director of Global Recruiting

We turned to LSA Global to help take our behavioral interviewing process to the next level in terms of both efficiency and effectiveness. LSA quickly understood our unique culture and challenging requirements.

They immediately helped us to improve our ability to continue to hire top talent that fits our culture and talent management strategy as we rapidly scale. Thank you!

Julie Pearl
Technical Program Manager

FAQs

Customized and targeted training that better enabales hiring managers to assess candidates based on past behavior and real-life examples.

Behavioral interviewing is effective because it uses past behavior to better predict future performance. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce reports that it delvers 55% more accurate prediction rates than traditional interviews. By requiring specific examples, it reduces hiring bias, minimizes rehearsed answers, and reveals real-life decision-making, conflict resolution, and job skills.

Behavioral interviews use structured questioning techniques to predict future performance based on past behavior. Interviewers ask open-ended, probing questions focusing on job specific past examples of core competencies and culture fit, rather than hypothetical situations

Anyone who is interview potential job candidates including HR professionals, recruiters, hiring managers, and coworkers.

Behavioral interviews reduce hiring bias by replacing subjective "gut feelings" and "first impressions" with consistent, standardized, evidence-based evaluations of past performance.