How to Answer Competency Questions used in Interviews?

Jan. 1, 2010 - PRLog -- Recruitment professionals believe that the best way to distinguish a candidate’s potential future performance is to find out about examples of past performance.

However graduate  candidates don’t usually have any experience of the industry to which they are applying and consequently it is impossible for interviewers to discuss previous job roles.

Instead interviewers use competency questions to force candidates to reveal how they have performed in various situations in the past, revealing individual personality traits.

These are a great help for interviewers interested in finding out exactly who a candidate is and how they may act if employed. Interviewers usually isolate specific key competencies that they believe suitable employees should possess and ask competency based interview questions designed to force candidates to reveal their skills in these areas.

Examples of key competencies interviewers ask about are: Teamwork, Responsibility, Decision making, Communication, Leadership, Commitment to career, Commercial awareness and Career motivation.

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