Workbook: Preparing Answers for Competency-Based Interviews
Your path to competency-based interview success starts here! Learn more about competency-based questions and answers. This workbook is full of hints, tips, guidance, worksheets and prompts. Write your competency answers following the step-by-step guidelines in this workbook. The workbook includes sample answers.
This workbook guides you through identifying and structuring good competency answers. I wrote and designed Preparing your Answers for Competency-based Interviews to take you through how to prepare successful answers for this type of interview. You might be preparing for an interview in a local authority or county council, the HSE, An Garda Síochána or in any organisation using a competency-based interview approach.
The table of contents of this workbook is included in the images, along with another two sample pages.
You will receive a link to download your PDF of the workbook after purchase.
Please note that the worksheets included in the Interview Preparation Webinar e-Course were the starting point for this workbook. This workbook includes a great deal of new information, more hints and tips and new worksheets.
Workbook description - WB0101
The Preparing your answers for competency-based interviews workbook is a step-by-step guide to help you prepare answers for competency-based interviews.
In this workbook you will learn a structure to use for your examples and hints and tips to guide you in selecting and writing those examples. You will read about typically asked questions across all of the public service competency models and be able to prepare your examples for these. You will understand what interviewers are looking for from your answers. This workbook will guide you through what you need to do to have good competency examples ready for your interview. The workbook is a PDF that you will download to use.
In it you will find:
- Tips, templates, lists and prompts that guide you through preparing your competency-based answers.
- Explanations of what interviewers are looking for in your competency-based answers.
- Sample questions that are ones that are typically asked.
- Examples of completed answers to questions that use the templates to help you best prepare for your interview.
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