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GET THAT JOB! DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF EXCELLING IN INTERVIEWS
AND GET THAT JOB. NOW YOU CAN LEARN FROM AN INSIDER EXACTLY HOW TO
EXCEL IN ANY INTERVIEW, PARTICULARLY THE POPULAR COMPETENCY BASED OR
BEHAVIORAL BASED INTERVIEW FORMATS.
GET THAT JOB!
Do you worry about interviews?
Have you ever attended an interview thinking you were well prepared,
only to discover that you weren't?
Have you ever found that the interviewer asked you lots of questions
you didn't really expect?
Have you ever been asked to tell the interviewer about a time when
you faced a certain difficulty, what you did and how it turned out?
IF YOU ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS - THIS BOOK WILL
REALLY HELP YOU.
LET'S FACE IT, INTERVIEWS ARE STRESSFUL EVEN IF YOU ARE FULLY
PREPARED. BUT IMAGINE IF YOU ARE NOT. IMAGINE IF THE INTERVIEWER
STARTS ASKING YOU A LOT OF UNEXPECTED QUESTIONS LIKE .. \"TELL ME
ABOUT A TIME WHEN YOU DEMONSTRATED ADAPTABILITY\" OR \"GIVE ME AN
EXAMPLE OF WHEN YOU SHOWED GREAT INITIATIVE AT WORK? WHY WAS THIS,
WHAT DID YOU DO AND HOW DID IT TURN OUT? IF YOU AREN'T WELL VERSED
IN THIS COMPETENCY OR BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEW FORMAT, AND YOU HAVEN'T
PREDICATED THE QUESTIONS AND REHEARSED YOUR ANSWERS AS PART OF YOUR
PREPARATION, YOU ARE GOING TO FIND IT HARD. WELL, NOW YOU CAN LEARN
EXACTLY HOW TO FULLY PREPARE YOURSELF, AND DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE YOUR
CHANCES OF LANDING THAT JOB. DID YOU KNOW THAT...
Most interviews nowadays are conducted either partly or wholly in a
Competency Based Format.
This means you will be asked to recall and tell the interviewer
about a range of challenges you have faced, what you did about them
and how successful your actions were.
That is the essence of Competency Based or Behavioral Based
Interviewing.
Once you know the insider secrets to this system it is easy to excel
- but if you don't it can be a difficult and exhausting experience.
And, by the way, the techniques I will share with you aren't just
for Competency Based Interviews, they will make you brilliant in any
style of interview because they equip you to give a really great
peformance under all circumstances.
HOW DO I KNOW THIS?
Well that's simple. I have been a Competency Based Assessor and
Interviewer for over 20 years, so I know exactly what assessors are
doing and what they are looking for.
I have been training other people in how to do this for years too,
and if you have the time I'd love to see you on one of my C.B.I
training programmes.
However, I recognise that not everyone has the time to spend on a
training course.
Now, in this e-book I'm sharing all of my experience with you in a
way that enables you can gain the necessary expertise very quickly and
with a minimum outlay.
In fact, this book will pay for itself within a few days of you
starting your new job!
You can download this e-book now and start learning how to excel at
interviews straight away.
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Read the first 10 pages of this information-packed 57 page ebook
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BASED INTERVIEWS (CBI) A DELEGATE'S GUIDE
PROLOGUE This e-book is one of a growing series of highly
approachable bite-sized self development titles within our
Jupiter-Training e-book series. They have been developed with the
specific aim of providing the core information that you will need to
very quickly gain a substantial amount of knowledge of your chosen
subject, so that, you can literally develop knowledge and expertise
over night if necessary. None of us has the time or inclination to
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WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR? This book is for anyone who is
considering applying for a new position in either a new organisation
or in your existing organisation. A large and growing number of
organisations have realised that traditional interviewing techniques
are at best only reasonably accurate at identifying and selecting the
most appropriate and best suited applicants for a particular role.
As a result, in recent years, a great many organisations have adopted
Competency Based Selection Methods, including Competency Based
Interviews (CBI) and Assessment Centres as a much more accurate and
rigorous selection approach. No matter what position you are
applying for, there is a good chance that the selection process you go
through will be either fully or partly competency based. This book
gives you the skills you need to excel in any CBI situation. Even if
it turns out that a future interview is not conducted using CBI
techniques, the knowledge and skills that you will learn in this book
will very significantly improve your interview performance. ABOUT
THE AUTHOR NORMAN HUCKERBY IS A MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, SKILLS
TRAINER AND INTERIM MANAGER. HE HAS A BACKGROUND OF SENIOR CUSTOMER
SERVICES MANAGEMENT WITHIN THE I.T. AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
SECTORS. HE SPECIALISES IN USING HIS SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE TO
DELIVER LASTING BUSINESS BENEFITS TO HIS CLIENTS THROUGH A NUMBER OF
FLEXIBLE MEANS INCLUDING: TRAINING COLOR: BLUE\">CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO COMPETENCY BASED INTERVIEWS CHAPTER 2
HOW THE CBI PROCESS WORKS CHAPTER 3 HOW THE ASSESSMENT IS MADE
CHAPTER 4 HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE CBI CHAPTER 5 HAVING A SUCCESSFUL
INTERVIEW CHAPTER 6 TYPICAL COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK CHAPTER 7
TYPICAL EVALUATION SCALE CHAPTER 8 SAMPLE COMPETENCY QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 9 SAMPLE CBI ANSWERS CHAPTER 10 FURTHER SELF DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO COMPETENCY BASED INTERVIEWS In
recent years, Competency Based Assessment methods have become very
popular with a variety of organisations, companies and government
bodies. These assessment methods include Competency Based
Interviews, Assessment Centres and Development Centres. Competency
based interviews are sometimes also called Structured Interviews or
Behavioural Interviews. They all mean the same thing. This e-book is
designed to give you all of the information you need to ensure that
you can be fully prepared for a Competency Based Interview (CBI) and
be successful on the day. It doesn't matter if you are short of
time, even if your interview is set for tomorrow, the format and style
of this book, and all of the books in our Jupiter-Training range, are
designed to provide you with highly distilled knowledge, skills and
subject matter that can be quickly and easily absorbed though
accelerated learning. _Throughout this book we have used the term
"assessor" to mean the interviewer._ _This is because their role is
wider that just the interview itself as will become apparent as you
progress through the book._ _We have also used the term "delegate" to
mean the person being interviewed and assessed._ _We talk about
"assessors" in the plural throughout this book to mean "assessor or
assessors"_ In this book we fully cover all aspects of CBI, both
theory and practice in 10 chapters: CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO
COMPETENCY BASED INTERVIEWS This introduction CHAPTER 2 HOW THE
CBI PROCESS WORKS We examine the history of CBI, its validity and
how it differs from traditional interview techniques. Also we look at
the work that goes on behind the scenes by the interviewing
organisation and assessors, and what to expect during the interview.
CHAPTER 3 HOW THE ASSESSMENT IS MADE You will discover what the
assessors do during the session and what they do afterwards to reach a
conclusion about your suitability. CHAPTER 4 HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE
CBI We show you the vital preparation that you must undertake before
the big day. As with most things in life, preparation is the key to a
successful outcome. We also reveal to you the model that CBI assessors
use so that you can tailor your preparation to give them the answers
in the precise format they need. This will make their lives easier, a
good strategy! CHAPTER 5 HAVING A SUCCESSFUL INTERVIEW We take you
step-by step through the interview process from getting there to the
opening through to the interview proper and the close. You will learn
the 14 critical points or techniques for answering CBI questions
successfully. CHAPTER 6 TYPICAL COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK We recap on
the discrete elements that have to be defined for each role to be
assessed and then list and define 30 typical competencies CHAPTER 7
TYPICAL EVALUATION SCALE You are reminded of the 4 key steps the
assessors have to go through during and following the CBI to make
their assessments. You will learn how a typical numerical evaluation
scale works together with some important refinements. CHAPTER 8
SAMPLE COMPETENCY QUESTIONS A selection of 20 typical CBI questions
is given, some of which reveal multiple competencies. CHAPTER 9
SAMPLE CBI ANSWERS You are given a set of 10 sample CBI answers in
the STAR format as examples of how to answer typical CBI questions and
to practice the STAR technique. CHAPTER 10 FURTHER SELF DEVELOPMENT
What else would you like to learn? Perhaps you would benefit from a
training programme where you can practice your new knowledge and
skills and really hone your expertise. So, that's the end of the
introduction and orientation. This book is about quickly becoming an
expert, so let's get started!
CHAPTER 2. HOW THE CBI PROCESS WORKS Competency Based
Assessment is a highly accurate method of assessing someone's
suitability for a role, normally a job or a promotion. WHERE DID IT
COME FROM? Behavioural or Competency assessment is not nearly as new
as you might think. Its origins can be traced back at least as far as
the early 1940s when some of the principles were used in war time
selection boards. A book called "The Assessment of Men", published
in the second half of the 1940s, was rediscovered by AT COLOR:
BLUE\">SO WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Competency based interviews are one way
of performing an assessment of someone's suitability for a role. They
focus largely on behavioural traits rather than on technical
abilities. Studies have concluded that competency based interviews
are around 5 times more accurate at choosing the right candidate(s)
than traditional interview formats. This sounds quite impressive, and
it is, but in practice it improves the statistical reliability of the
prediction process from a lowly 10% to between 50% and 55% Having
said that, when assessor experience is taken into account, and the
candidate's technical abilities are also checked, assessors can, and
do, achieve a very high correlation between success in competency
based assessment and a delegate's subsequent performance in the role.
Traditional selection techniques tend to be based around interviews
where questions are asked in relation to CV information and where
"fit" with organisational culture is assessed ? normally in a
subjective fashion. Many interview questions are hypothetical, taking
the form of "What would you do if". On the other hand, the CBI
system is highly objective and specific. It focuses on pre-defined key
criteria-based requirements for the role in question, and looks in
depth for verifiable evidence of past performance in relation to those
criteria. A well managed CBI can reduce misunderstanding and
personal bias, and it can largely prevent delegates from concocting
answers. A number of questions are pre-defined with follow-up
questions posed as a result of your responses to these initial
questions. This process tends to lead to a fairer assessment of
delegates and to therefore produce more reliable results. Clearly, the
interview itself, whether of a traditional nature or a CBI forms only
a part of the selection decision making. Other elements are the
evidence found in your CV of job specific skills and inevitably some
level of subjective assessment of you as a person and how well you
will fit into the organisation. THE BASIS OF ANY COMPETENCY BASED
ASSESSMENT IS THE BELIEF THAT PAST PERFORMANCE IS A VERY GOOD
PREDICTOR OF FUTURE PERFORMANCE (AT LEAST IN SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES).
The starting point of any CBI process is for the interviewing
organisation to develop a clear definition of the role in question and
the accountabilities of holders of that role. Accountabilities are
areas of responsibility for an individual or team. EXAMPLES COULD
BE: Customer Service Financial Planning Project Management Quality
Sales Operations Management For each accountability there will be a
definition of what it actually means to the organisation. SO,
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