Tips for preparing for a competency based interview

[Mumdiva99]

I have an interview tomorrow for an area manager position. I am struggling which bit of the details about the job contains all the competencies they are looking for to work out my examples. The interview is expected to be about 30 minutes - so I am thinking there will be 6-10 questions.....

The details I have are:
Role Details - working hours and salary
Introduction - a brief overview of the project
The role - what I would do
Purpose of the role - 2 bullets of objective
The six vital behaviours of a project ambassador
Main responsibilities
Essential skills and experience

Which section do you think lists the competencies required? Is it the skills and experience?

In all the interviews I have ever had, I've ALWAYS been asked "tell us about time when you worked as part of a team"

"Tell us about a time where you've bad to adapt your communication styles to suit XXXXX"

"Tell us ..... how you work under pressure" (this one often ties into resilience, managing/prioritising a workload etc)

These interviews include the Police, the NHS and Law Firms! Good luck! 🤞🏻💕

Thanks @Hillarypcof I agree they are pretty standard. I'm just supposed to go through the JD and get all my examples ready but there is so much in here I can't possibly have an example for every line......and for each I have to have the situation, task, action, result.......It is very specific!! - odd because I haven't had to provide any information about previous roles....

Think “STAR” when structuring your examples (situation, task, action, result)

Yes STAR and make sure you focus on what you did, I did this etc not we.

You don’t need examples for every one, you will find several examples that can be angled to fit different scenarios.

I would say the 'vital behaviours' are your competencies and you'd want to demonstrate the 'essential skills' in your answers. 8 - 10 questions seems like too much, I recently had an interview for a management role and it was 5 questions in an hour to demonstrate the competencies at a managerial level.

They also don’t necessarily have to be work based examples, if you have hobbies, organising events etc can work.

They also don’t necessarily have to be positive examples if you made a mistake but can prove you’ve learnt from it.

In fact its probably a good idea to prep an example where you did make a mistake and can demonstrate that you've learned from it. "Tell us about a mistake you made" is a popular interview question at the moment, and usually demonstrates some vague concept like personal responsibility, courage etc.

Thank you all. I will keep thinking.

@OrangeGinLemonFanta the only thing with those is that they looked like they would be the same for all employees irrespective of which role you were applying for....