Interview prep

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How long do you prep for an interview for? It's a promotion and in a week.

A few hours to do notes and then read them through so I know what I want them to hear about. Have you acted up in a role, what challengers have you faced, how did you overcome them?

It's a competency based interview with a presentation. I guess I'm panicking then in thinking I'd need more time.

This advice helped me so I'll pass it on. It's from memory about 6 years off but made me much more successful.

Read the person spec and company needs info and identify their buying button ie what they are looking for - boil it down to 3

Now Mind map your three key USPs (strengths) that match up to the buying buttons. This way you only have three things to remember and the mind map helps you brain remembers things subconsciously.

for each of them give three key pieces of evidence. For each of these think of the impact that it had directly, your team, the organisation and the service users / community. (No need to do all of these but a couple for each- main impact and a bonus)

Also write, practice and rehearse your elevator pitch for interview- Google this is great when they ask the horrible supposedly ice breaker tell us a bit about your self!

A week is plenty of time. Any more and you'll over cook it l. Should take a few hours over a few days.

Realise you didn't ask for any of that but hope it helps someone!!!

I found that really useful. I'm really worried about them asking questions in a way I can't fit my examples. I know I'm overthinking this. Just spent 3 hours pulling together the presentation. Again I'm thinking I must be missing points to cover.

How did you get on op?

It's start of next week!

How are you feeling now

It's tomorrow! Nervous and feel unprepared!

Have that adrenaline rush already! Had a bath, reading etc.

Hope you smashed it today!

Got offered the role but feel a bit flat as said I came across as nervy! I thought I had gotten into a good flow when answering the questions.

You got the role!! Ask what made them think you were nervy.
i talk wayyyyyy to fast when I’m nervous so had to really work on that it could be something similar

For the ones I've done well at, I've spent equivalent to two full work days. I prepare detailed examples of where I've demonstrated every competency, basicially wrote out a script.

Plus the time writing and practicing the presentation.

I always keep the notes. There are examples going back 20 years that are still getting me jobs today 😆

Yay well done!!!!

You were nervy! You said so yourself! But you still got it!

Wahoo!