Bonus: Using AI to Generate Behavioral Questions
Yesterday, I reviewed a tool for generating practice behavioral questions from your resume. Well, turns out the same tool can do the same with a job description.
Turn the job description into a PDF and then upload it into PDF.ai’s Resume Scanner and in seconds you have a clean list of questions to practice based on the job description.
The following is the results from a random job description I grabbed from LinkedIn and pasted into a Google Doc that I turned into a PDF. (Maybe you can do this with ChatGPT but I personally find this output is better and more focused on the job search than what I have seen from ChatGPT or Google’s Bard. (Let me know if you have a difference of opinion).
Sample Starter Prompts to Practice for Behavioral Interviews.
Overview
The candidate is applying for the position of Senior Principal Product Manager for Platform at Atlassian. They will be responsible for deep diving into complex topics, providing recommendations, and solving impactful problems. They will work closely with product leaders in Platform and across Atlassian to drive strategic topics and prioritize features and improvements. The candidate should have deep technical knowledge of the Platform Domain, a proven track record in defining and executing strategies, analytical abilities, influential leadership and interpersonal skills, and a relentless customer obsession.
Key Details
Applying for: Senior Principal Product Manager for Platform
Responsibilities: Deep diving into complex topics, providing recommendations, solving impactful problems, driving strategic topics, prioritizing features and improvements
Required skills: Deep technical knowledge of the Platform Domain, proven track record in defining and executing strategies, analytical abilities, influential leadership and interpersonal skills, relentless customer obsession
Questions
Can you provide an example of a complex topic you have deep dived into and the recommendations you provided as a result?
How have you demonstrated your ability to drive strategic topics and prioritize features and improvements in your previous roles?
Tell us about a time when you used your deep technical knowledge to solve a problem or create value for customers.
How do you gather and prioritize customer and business requirements to develop successful product strategies?
Can you share an example of a situation where you had to influence and manage relationships across different teams and stakeholders?
How do you ensure that customer needs are being met in your product management approach?
Describe a time when you defined and measured key business and usage success metrics for a product or feature.
How do you continuously drive best practices and raise the bar in your product management work?
How do you adapt and learn in a fast-paced environment with varied topics and tasks?
Can you provide an example of a time when you collaborated with engineering, design, and other teams to deliver a successful product or feature?
This actually provided better results than scanning my resume.
Recommended Next-Level Move
Particularly if you are struggling to get past the recruiter and/or hiring manager, consider comparing the questions from the scan of the job description to the questions generated by scanning your resume.
What is lacking in the questions from your resume? Consider finding ways to incorporate those into your resume.