Behavioral interviews

I have been using behavioral interviews for a while now while interviewing candidates. More than the technical skills which can be evaluated much easily, evaluating a person's capability to make decisions, do the right thing, act in complex business situations and deal with organizational complexities are more difficult. If you were to ask a person, what would you do in a certain situation, he or she would tell the answer what you want to hear. However with behavioral interviews, you are asking the person to talk about an example of a particular situation and then dive deep on analyzing how the person dealt with the situation.

This technique has been very useful to me in evaluating candidates as it not only tells how the person acted in a certain situation, the values and the methods used and whether the person has the required experience for the job s/he is interviewing.