Acing the Competency Interview

Interviewers nowadays are no longer just concerned about your social status, what you did on your last job or how long you plan to stay at the company. Now, with competition getting steeper and steeper, businesses are concentrating on finding quality workers that would help them in making the company successful. This is why they have devised different interview styles and questions to have an in depth assessment of possible candidates. One of these is competency interviews. If you are not yet sure about how well you will fare at this type of interview, then read on to ace this step to employment!

First of all, a competency interview is a style wherein your prospective employer tries to learn how you have fared in difficult situations in the past. From the name itself, the interview assesses how competent you are when faced with particularly hard situations as this would predict how competent you will be in the future – hopefully while working for them.

The right and wrong answers are usually dependent on the person asking the questions. Before a competency interview, interviewers usually study you resume, assess the skills you have written there, decide whether those skills are vital for the position you are applying for and start to form a draft of possible questions. Regardless of the job you are applying for, the usual scenario goes like this. They will first ask about:

      The most difficult part in your previous job.

      The most difficult situation you have encountered during your previous job.

      What you have done to fix the situation.

      What was the result of what you have done.

These are the major questions asked so better start preparing for it. Since its you who provides sets the stage by supplying your previously most difficult situation, then start thinking answers up right now. Good luck!

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