Competency based interview - Any tips?

[claireybear]

I have a competency based interview on Monday and though I have found some questions to plan around I was hoping anybody might be able to give me some tips??

[Octavius]

Competency based interviews wil focus upon your match to the key attitudinal and behavioural competencies which are relevant to the role.

They set out to explore your knowledge, skills, attitudes or behaviours and may seek examples in this context from your real life experiences.

Without knowing the job role or person specification it is difficult to point you further in the right direction.

[claireybear]

The position is with a top specialist recruitment consultancy in Birmingham 

[Sasha13]

What's the name of the company as a matter of interest? I only ask this as I used to work for a top  specialist recruitment consultancy who has an office in Birmingham! They dealt with the recruitment of retail managers.

The thing to remember with competency based interviews is that you will score highest on them if you can provide loads of examples of when you actually did what you are talking about. For a recruitment consultancy you should definitely expect questions that measure the following competencies... teamwork, driving sales, meeting targets, initiative, working under pressure, working to targets and deadlines.

I'm sure you've done interviews before, but if not look here for some more information - choose career guidance from the menu on the left. Good Luck!!!

[ilovetohelp13]

Try these interview tips from Payscale.com. See http://bitly.com/Zh2jdR