YEAY you've got an interview.. but it is described as a competence based interview.. this presentation can help you understand what that means and how to prepare for it. It will explain what you need to do to answer the questions well Good luck

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3. Make the unconscious competence
conscious
 Revisit best experience
 Talk about best examples
 Show you have researched
 Make the complex succinct
 Sound confident
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Take some of the power…know
what you need them to hear
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4. Recent… use examples that are
recent, less than five years old
unless you really need to go back in
time…. Are you the same person
that you were 15 years ago? have
you not acquired skills and
expertise? RECENT is good
 Relevant… use examples that the
interviewers will like, ones they will
understand and will think.. ‘yeah I
want some of that…..’
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6. Tell me..
 Competence based interviews want
a story
 They are looking for behaviours
 Use STAR, but tell the story
Eg Tell me about a difficult interview…
Situation
Task
Action
Results
And here’s what I’d do in this job
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Planning – strategically, working out what needs to
be done and scheduling and gaining commitment to
the doing
Policy - Problem Solving – defining the issues,
working out the options, developing the steer and
setting out solutions
Pursestrings – balancing the budgets and getting
VFM, cutting the costs, achieving income
Partnerships – who, what, how gaining
commitment, sharing the costs/risks,
People – leadership, influencing, customers
Performance – managing, measuring, driving
Projects/Programmes , delivering on plans and
making it happen, setting the pace, mitigating the
risks
Procurement/Commissioning , developing the
market and buying and managing contractors
Politics – managing the politics, steering the
course, understanding the priorities
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