Job Interview Questions: How far along in an government job interview do they ask for fingerprinting and background checks?

I have a second interview and then fingerprinting afterward and I just want to see where I stand. Do government interviews usually ask technically questions (skills/concepts), or more behavioral? I'm so nervous!

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You can't quite lump "government job" into one category. If it's a standard, general schedule administrative and clerical government job, then you won't do fingerprints and fill out the background questionaire until after you're hired, but if it's a law enforcement job, they'll do the background check before they hire you. If it's a state government job, it will vary by state and by job, and the types of questions they will ask will also vary between the types of government jobs. I think most federal jobs are using behavioral situation questions now. "Tell me of a time when" and "what would you do if" types of questions. So it's hard to tell where you stand at this point, not knowing how many people they are interviewing for the same position, particularly.

Good luck at any rate.

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• if u got a second interview you pretty much got the job
  
  since it is government it really is just checking your okay to work so not a spy, not convicted of crimes etc
  
  at most they will ask a few normal questions
  
  but congrats you pretty much have the job


• well i work in the los angeles community college district (it's a government corporation) and they only wanted my fingerprints, soc sec and passport 0r , green card, citizenship thing...