HOW HR’S CAN MASTER COMPETENCY BASED INTERVIEWS?

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• HOW HRS CAN MASTER COMPETENCY BASED INTERVIEWS?

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• Competency based interview
  is designed to test the caliber of a candidate
  for handling the job and specific situations.
  Generally these interviews include questions that
  can demonstrate the skills of employees,
  companies are looking for.
• Purpose Generally when an organisation asks
  competency-based questions, they are looking for
  the candidates who can deal the challenges of the
  job.
• Preparation The best way to prepare the
  competency-based interview is to reread the job
  description, job requirement and to know exactly
  what the organization is looking for in the new
  employee.
• C. The STAR approach The best way to
  approach the competency-based interview is STAR
  approach  Situation, Task, Action, Result
  

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• Situation followed by Task Generally HRs can
  give a situation, which can be related to a
  current project or team behaviour or any
  hypothetical situation. The information given
  should be clear and useful to the story. Finally
  assign some tasks to the candidates to accomplish
  the final outcome.
• Action Action is the most important section of
  the STAR approach where candidates are expected
  to exhibit and highlight their skills and thought
  process applied. After giving the story make it
  clear to the candidates as to what they are
  expected to do.
• Result In competency based interviews, the
  evaluation of each candidate has to be done on
  the basis of how they acted on the given
  situations. 

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