Workbook: Perfecting Capability-Based Interviewing for Interviewers
Are you looking for help figuring out how to interview using the new Capability Framework for Civil Service interviews? Interviews in the Civil Service are moving from being based on the competency model that has been in place for years to a new capability framework. This means you will need to prepare new types of questions and be comfortable with new ways of evaluating and scoring candidates. I wrote and designed Perfecting Capability-based Interviewing for Interviewers to help you prepare for your role as an interviewer for this new type of interview.
This workbook is full of hints, tips, guidance, worksheets and prompts to help you prepare your questions about behaviours, skills, strength, knowledge, values, interests and motivation. You can write your questions following the step-by-step guidelines in this workbook filled with template questions and sample questions. It includes tips and pointers for how to evaluate and probe answers. It explains the new scoring mechanism and how to score and provide candidate feedback.
The table of contents of this workbook is included in the images, along with another two sample pages.
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The Perfecting capability-based interviewing for interviewers workbook is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to help you prepare as an interviewer for interviews using the new Civil Service Capability Framework.
The new Capability Framework brings a significant change to how interviews are conducted in the Civil Service. These new interviews are focused more broadly on the candidate as a person, which means that you will be doing a different type of interviewing. As well as asking about examples, as interviewers did in the past, you will now be asking questions about skills, strengths, knowledge, values, motivation and interests. This workbook will guide you through what you need to do to be fully prepared for your interviews. 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 questions and how to evaluate answers.
- Clear explanations of the types of questions you could ask about each of the capability dimensions and sub-dimensions at each grade.
- Maps of how the new capability dimensions match some of the competencies in the previous competency model, which will be helpful for those already familiar with asking questions about those competencies.
- Sample questions to ask about a candidate's experience, about when they lack direct experience and asking about examples (including sample follow-on questions).
- Hints and tips on how to evaluate examples and how to evaluate answers.
- Sample questions for skills, strength, knowledge, values, motivation and interests.
- Worked examples of the completed templates showing a completed set of questions and follow-on questions.
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