Now that you have understood what behavioral questions are, it is time for me to share with you how to answer such questions in the best way possible. And for that maybe you have heard about this before that most candidates are taught how to use the star approach. This is the best possible way to give answer to a behavioral question or a situational based question. This approach will help you give proper concrete answers with which you will be able to get the attention of the interviewer and impress him or her in a short span of time in the star approach, the S stands for the situation T stands for the task A stands for the action and then finally, R stands for the final result as far as the situation is concerned. Like I mentioned in my previous lecture, once you are addressed with a behavioral question or a situational question, you will have to take some time to think of a situation which is most relevant to the question that has been asked.

I will share examples later. But right now I want you to listen carefully about what the star approach is and how you You can apply it effectively. So you take five to 10 seconds to think about a situation. And you can request the interviewer that you are thinking about a situation which best describes the question at hand. For example, if the question is related to problem solving, you tell that person that please give me a couple of seconds. So I can take off a good example that I can share with you, while doing so take a sip of water, or you can take some notes or just think about it.

But don't take more than five to 10 seconds. That is ample time to think of an example if you're telling the truth, once you've done so, while you have thought about the example, try to construct your answer as well, something I shared earlier. And you can do this by using the star approach. So you start the answer by explaining the situation, for example, what happened and where you address that particular problem, why that problem existed? What was the reason behind it, and why you had to resolve that problem in the first place while doing so if you were working as a team, you can share it in a way that you were part of a team which came across a problem. And you had to solve this collectively as well.

And later on, you can precisely pinpoint your role in that solution. So just explain the situation in a way that it lays down proper foundations for the rest of your answer. After you have explained the situation comes the task, which is the T of the star approach. Over here, you have to describe the challenge that was in front of you, and what had to be done in order to resolve that problem. During this phase of your answer, you can share the expected outcomes as well. And if suppose you were working as a team, you can identify some of the roles but overtaken by your team members and yourself as well.

Then following this comes the action part. Over here you have to elaborate specifically your actions on what you did and how you overcame that particular situation. Try to specify all the analytical work that you did all the coordination that you had to do with your team members, and everything that was related to the action part as far as the resolution of that problem is concerned. Over here, I would suggest that you use the term AI and we appropriately so, first you tell them that we did this, this and this. And my role in this was that I did this, this and this, this will give a proper concrete answer where the interviewer will know what was the team collaborative effort, and what specifically was your role in that situation? And then finally, the fourth step is the results or the are in the star approach.

Over here, you will have to explain the overall efforts that you did and what were the final results of all the efforts of your team and yourself as well. How was your overall experience what you learned during this particular phase, how your team or your managers responded and try to quantify your achievements as well. So if you can share your concrete numbers with the interviewer, you will be able to impress in a much better way. So this was the overview of the star approach. Now moving forward, I would like to share a couple of examples with you so that you can better understand what the star approach is and how You can use it to your advantage.