How to Effectively Plan and Execute a Competency-Based Interview

Competency interviewing is a highly potent tool to add to any recruitment process. 

 The main three reasons are:

1. It helps to take the 'halo and horns effect', or unconscious bias, out of a recruitment process;
   
   
2. It helps make better and considered recruitment decisions based upon logic rather than ‘gut feel’;
   
   
3. And most importantly, it takes the emotion out of the recruitment decision-making process.

We’ve been eulogising about the benefits of competency interviewing for years and introduced hundreds of hiring managers to this reasonably simple interview technique.

Guide to Competency Based Interviews

So, we’ve put together a comprehensive guide to competency interviewing, which includes:

• An overview and a guide to choosing hiring competencies.
  
  
• How to plan competency-based questions with the follow-on questions.
  
  
• Using the STAR (or STARR) interviewing technique to help guide your questions.
  
  
• The outcome and benefits of competency interviewing
  
  
• A full battery of competency-based interview questions.
  
  
• An example competency interviewing template for a Sales Manager with competencies for leadership.
  
  
• Details of how to build an adequate competency interviewing scoring system
  
  
• A system of involving colleagues in the interview scoring and decision-making process.

The guide finishes with ‘Golden Rules’ when designing and implementing a competency interview process into your business.

It is free to view and download (not even an email signup is required). We hope that you find it useful and that competency interviewing helps improve your future hiring decisions.