Some departments at Washington University use a behavorial assessment (Activity Vector Analysis-AVA) for assessing a candidate's behavioral fit to a position. Based on your word selections to a couple of questions and a short description of yourself, the tool creates a candidate profile. The profile consists of descriptions of natural behavior, natural tendencies, operating styles, and ideal environment. About four days after applying online, I received an email from the hiring department that my application had been received along with instructions for completing the AVA. After I completed and submitted the AVA, I received an email the next day with interview times. The interview was a one-on-one situational interview with the hiring manager. Many questions such as: * Tell me a situation in which you had to make a difficult business decision * How do you deal with changing priorities? * Do you prefer to handle one task or many? I would suggest the best way to prepare for a situational/behavioral interview is to research interview questions and spend a couple of days writing out your responses. In doing this exercise, it will also ensure that you will have good examples of your work experiences to talk about during the interview that relate to the questions being asked.