Competency-Based Interviewing: The Competitive Advantage

A competitive advantage in Competency-Based Interviewing skills will give you the greatest chance of attaining the role you desire within the most suitable company for you.
There has been a significant increase in the number of companies requesting candidates to undertake Competency Based Interviews (CBI) recently, but as companies become more sophisticated in how they assess for these behaviours, the quality of the advice found online or even distributed by the recruiting companies remains primarily copied and pasted content that was well-intentioned but inadequately conceived in the first place.

This book will show you how to develop stronger example answers for the most popular CBI questions, with deep insight on each of the behavioural competencies sought by companies today, a far more effective methodology than STAR for formulating your own examples and a plethora of examples provided by clients of mine who have used the techniques found in this book to acquire roles from Analyst through to Senior Director levels with some of the most desirable businesses.
William Illing has been delivering Competency-Based Interviews for more than 20 years and for the last 8 years has also written and delivered workshops designed to significantly improve Competency-Based Interview skills.
FAQs
What is a Competency-Based Interview?
It is the part of the interview focused not on your knowledge, but on the key behaviours required for the role, e.g. customer focus, collaboration, leadership etc and Competency-Based Interview: The Competitive Advantage provides deeper insight into this interview technique and how to succeed at it.
What are the most common interview questions?
Whilst the type of experience or knowledge required differ from role to role, the key behavioural indicators for success often have commonality between roles and between companies. Competency-Based Interviews: The Competitive Advantage has the most commonly sought behaviours and the questions asked to ascertain them currently.
How do you prepare for a job interview?
Well, there are a number of things that you want to consider, but above all else, you want examples drawn from your own experience that demonstrates that you have the desired experience, knowledge and behaviours for the role. The person that has the best examples is most likely going to win. Competency-Based Interviews: The Competitive Advantage will provide you with a better method for putting your examples together than the more commonly used STAR approach.