Civil Service - Answering Strength Based Questions
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2024
- Civil Service - Answering Strength Based Questions. Elizabeth Conley, Senior Interview Coach at Interview Skills Clinic helps you prepare for a Strength based Civil Service interview? You are likely to be asked Strength questions as part of the Civil Service blended recruitment assessment under Success Profiles. In this video I will tell you what a Strength is, the difference between Strength and Behaviour questions and the relationship between the two type of questions. I give you tips on how to prepare for Strength questions in your interview. In part two, you can listen to some typical Strength questions so that there familiar with them before the interview.
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00:00 What are Civil Service Strength based questions
00:41 What are Civil Service Strength questions
01:02 How do I know what Civil Service Strengths I will be asked
02:36 Example of Civil Service Strength questions
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In most Civil Service interviews candidates will be told the Behaviour before being asked the question. If not, you can certainly ask if you are not clear what Behaviour the question refers to. For example: ‘Tell me about a time when you were working with stakeholders who had different agendas, how did you build consensus and influence the outcome? This could be a Working Together or Communicating and Influencing Behaviour. If you are being asked Strength questions you will not be told the Strengths before the question. Good luck with your interview.
Fantastic tips !! Thank you.
I'm glad you pointed out the page in the success profiles where it matches each strength to a behaviour. Also how you gave insight how to answer a strength based question as I have been so used to answering behaviour based questions only.
Thanks Neil, I am glad you found it helpful. Good luck with your interview
Amazing!
Thank you
Glad you like it! I hope your interview goes well.
Very helpful. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful! Good luck with your interview
During the interview, do they tell you what behaviour they’re about to ask questions around, or are we to figure it out ourselves what behaviour the question aligns with? For example my interview will be assessing 5 behaviours, will they tell me “the next questions will be assessing you around behaviour…”
Thank you in advance to anyone able to respond
Thanks for the video. I am struggling to understand the structure of Civil Service interviews now. I had quite a lot years ago before they switched to Success Profiles and I did really well. But I am understanding correctly that now when you go for an interview, say you have seven questions, ALL of your seven are the ones structured as strength based questions? Or is there a mix of behaviour based and strength based? I thought it was only strength based but with you saying at the start that it was now more of a combo I am not sure
It can be confusing. Success Profiles is a blended assessment process. It is up to the dept and hiring team to decide how they want to assess candidates. For examples, one role can be assesssing you against Behaviours, Strengths and Experience. Another rolea agains Technical, Experience and Strengths. Technical can be assessed by tests, presentation or technical questions (relating to the role and marked against a specialised framework). If you download the job specification, (it's not aways on the job advert) it will tell you how candidates are going to be assessed. If you are not sure how you being assessed you can use the contact email to clarify how you are being assessed. I hope this helps :)
@@interviewskillsclinic thanks very much for this - it helps a lot :)
Hi there : ) I am applying for a CS and in the application the behaviour I will be assessed on is 'Making Effective Decisions'. If I proceed to the interview stage, will they ask questions solely about this behaviour or will they also inquire about the other ones? Thank you in advance :) Do you have any additional resources to help me prepare my application?
Hello, you need to look at the job specification. It will same specifically which Behaviours you are being assessed on. It might be just Making Effective Decisions or one of the other 8 Behaviours. If it is only Making Effective Decisions you will have other types of questions in the interview. It will say, something like, "You are being asessed by Success Prfoles' and then it will specify whether you are being assessed on Behaviours, Strengths, Ability, Experience or Technical. Most roles normally assess you against 2-3 of the criteria. Good luck with the interview.
Would you still use a STAR example for a strength question? Thanks for your advice.
No because you haven’t got time to include a detailed STAR example but you need to share recent anecdotes to support your answer. If something is a natural Strength of yours then you should be doing it all the times so you can’t share examples from years ago. A Strength answer should be no more than 2 minutes. Your answer should feel and sound like a natural conversation but you still need to share evidence to support what you are saying. Good luck with the interview.
When attending a CS interview, do we need to answer strength questions with the STAR method? Or just answering the question with our own examples is OK? thanks.
You don't need to use a detailed STAR example but ideally multiple anecdotes as if something is a strength of yours you will be doing it frequently.
Behaviour questions are nothing like 'tell me about a time when you...'. That's the old style of CS interview. You're meant to answer the scenario-based question, and then back up it up with an example as an add-on where possible.
Hi James, thanks for your comment. I would be interested in what role you were interviewed for? Or what Department you work in? In our experience, ( we haver access to banks of questions across many of the Civil Service Departments and clients share their questions with us weekly) the vast majority of Behaviour questions still start with, ''tell us about a time.. can you give an example or describe a time". Success Profiles is a blended interview approach and a role can be assessed at interview with just Experence and Strength questions. An interviewer may then ask Situational questions, this is a popular style for more technical roles. Border Force and the Department of Education tend to favour Strength questions at EO-SEO level. However, it's very useful to share your experience and remind candidates that the Interviewers can choose to ask any style of questions. in recent years we have seen an introduction to questions such as 'how would you ... or have you ....'questions. For example, for the Behaviour Changing and Improving, 'Have you ever met resistance when implementing a new idea or policy?' This still requires a STAR example. Overall, to do well in a Behaviour interviews candidates should prepare Behaviour examples.
Hi, I have a strength based interview for immigration enforcement officer role. Can you predict what type of questions they’ll ask 😬
The job specification should give you an indication of the Strength you might be asked. For example, if you are being assessed on Behaviour Working Together then you could predict being asked a Strength question around being a Challenger, Emotionally Intelligent, Inclusive, Negotiator, Networker, Relationship Builder of Team Player. If they job specification does not mention being asessed on Behaviours then you need to look at the Essential Criteria and ty and match this agaiinst the 36 Strengths.