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#competency questions #How To Be More Than Competent In Competency Based InterviewsWhat is a competency-based interview?Competency-based interviews use questions which aim to find out how you have used specific skills in your previous experience and how you approach problems, tasks and challenges. Also called behavioural or situational questions, they are often used in first interviews. These interviews are based on the premise that past behaviour is a good predictor of future behaviour. They are particularly useful for employers looking for raw talent (e.g. graduates for training schemes where prior knowledge may be less important than having the right aptitude) and for selecting those seeking promotion within an organisation. Examples of competencies:One competency might be achieving results and improving performance. An interviewer could use a couple of approaches.
A good way to structure your answer is to use the well-known STAR model:
A good interviewer will want to know what you learnt from your experience, particularly how you might have done things differently. so be prepared to reflect on your performance. How do you know which competencies are important?There are books and websites which list 100 s of terms such as: results orientation, impact, initiative, influence, customer orientation, interpersonal understanding, organisational awareness, analytical thinking and so on. To research your particular occupational area, employer and job:
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How to prepare for a Competency-based interviewIt s really, really simple:
Good news: many people don t do the above preferring instead to take a rushed, grape-shot approach applying for anything and everything that comes along and are surprised that (a) they don t get an interview and (b) if they do, they perform like rabbits in headlights.
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