What are Competence based interviews?

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Make the unconscious competence conscious

Revisit best experience Talk about best examples Show you have researched Make the complex succinct Sound confident

Take some of the power…know what you need them to hear


Recent… use examples that are recent, less than five years old unless you really need to go back in time…. Are you the same person that you were 15 years ago? have you not acquired skills and expertise? RECENT is good

Relevant… use examples that the interviewers will like, ones they will understand and will think.. ‘yeah I want some of that…..’



Tell me.. Competence based interviews

want a story They are looking for behaviours Use STAR, but tell the storyEg Tell me about a difficult

interview…SituationTaskActionResultsAnd here’s what I’d do in this job


Planning – strategically, working out what needs to be done and scheduling and gaining commitment to the doing

Policy - Problem Solving – defining the issues, working out the options, developing the steer and setting out solutions

Pursestrings – balancing the budgets and getting VFM, cutting the costs, achieving income

Partnerships – who, what, how gaining commitment, sharing the costs/risks,

People – leadership, influencing, customers Performance – managing, measuring,

driving Projects/Programmes, delivering on plans

and making it happen, setting the pace, mitigating the risks

Procurement/Commissioning, developing the market and buying and managing contractors

Politics – managing the politics, steering the course, understanding the priorities


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What are Competence based interviews?