How to answer competency based interview questions | STAR method

Описание: Competency-based interviews are interviews that aim to test your core competencies, these will vary from industry to industry and job to job. They attempt to find out what core skills you have, how you use them and examples of this in both your career and wider life. Most competency-based interviews will last in or around 1 hour. This can massively vary depending on; how the interview has gone (good or bad), how many stages the company has in the recruitment process and how many candidates are interviewing for the role.

Time-stamps:

0:22 = What are competency-based interviews ?
1:28 = How to approach competency-based interviews
3:30 = The STAR method
5:00 = Final tips

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How do I prepare for a competency-based interview UK?

Cheatsheet: Jot down a few of your key core competencies both personally and for your job role with examples / stories to detail these competencies

Tell a story: By using the traditional story arc of ‘beginning, middle and end’ you will be able to demonstrate the progression of an event that occurred covering the start of the project / problem / task / conflict (etc) and following it through to the completion or resolution.

5 Ws (and 1 H):

Who? Who is it about? Who was involved?

What? What happened? What was the outcome? What was the market like?

When? When in your career did this happen? When did it take place?

Where? Where did it take place?

Why? Why did it happen? Why did this situation come around? Why were you a part of this? Why were you involved?

How? What did you put in place to make this thing happen? How were you involved?

A lot of detail can be added to an idea when using the 5 Ws and 1 H method and can be flipped and be used to glean information about the company from the interviewers as detailed by ABRIVIA.

What is the STAR technique in competency-based interviews?

The STAR technique is the ‘go-to’ technique when looking to effectively answer competency-based interview questions. It stands for:

S – Situation

T – Task

A – Action

R – Result

How to use the STAR technique in competency-based interviews?

Start by talking through the situation, set the scene talk by using the 5 W and H method and using the ‘beginning’ section of the story arc.

You then lay out the task what the task is and when it happened, who was involved, why it came about and where this was (whether that be the company to what the point in your career was.)

Then work through the actions you took during this time including how you dealt with people involved / timeframe / workload etc. Honestly and clearly explain the result of the task, linking it back to the question or competency to complete the answer.

Advice from our team

Ryan Venner:

Make sure the examples are about your involvement – they are interviewing you for the job, talking about what your colleagues previously achieved isn’t what the interviewer wants to hear
Be prepared – competency-based interviews can be overwhelming to provide such detailed answers, however, if you are prepared and know your examples well, it will come naturally
Read the interviewers’ body language – sometimes candidates can receive feedback they waffled on, make sure you read the body language of the interviewer to gauge their interest
Ask if they would like you to expand further – if you feel your answer was too short, check before you move onto the next question