What is a competency based interview?
A growing number of companies are moving towards this type of interviewing as it more accurately evaluates the candidates potential to perform in relation to essential criteria for the advertised role.
Competency-based interviews (also called structured interviews) are interviews where each question is designed to test a specific skill. The answer is then matched against pre-decided positive and negative behaviours and marked accordingly. For example, the interviewers may want to test the candidate's ability to deal with difficult customers and will ask the candidate to provide an example of a situation where he/she handled an upset or angry customer.
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