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MBA Review Magazine:
Competency-based Interviews
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There are certain jobs for which one can select an employee only if he or she is competent enough in the areas which are required for the job. Therefore, it is essential that the employers/recruiters and the candidates should know the basics of competency-based interviews.

 
 
 

There are different types of interviews which are being held by different recruiters in different ways. The reason is that every employer/recruiter has his own objective, vision and purpose for recruiting the manpower. There are other recruiters who are less interested in judging the competency factors and lay more emphasis on some other factors and attributes.

Competencies are the main characteristics which most successful performers acquired to be so successful. The companies are benefitted from competencies because it provides them better and sophisticated ways to manage and improve the quality of their employees. Some of the big organizations do not use the term `competencies'. They define it as the key characteristics that bring success by various elements such as success factors, attributes, values, dimensions etc.A competency-based interview uses generally behavioral questions to help the interviewer assess the candidate based on critical competencies that have been identified by the employer. Such type of interview is highly structured with key questions providing for the interviewers to help them determine how strong candidates are in a specific competence.

A competency-based interview uses generally behavioral questions to help the interviewer assess the candidate based on critical competencies that have been identified by the employer. Such type of interview is highly structured with key questions providing for the interviewers to help them determine how strong candidates are in a specific competence.It is concluded that competency interviews are structured which use behavioral questions to help the interviewer assess candidates based on some critical competencies identified for particular positions. The common competency-based interviewing style is based upon asking candidates some primary questions targeted to the critical competency for the position.

 
 
 

Competency-based Interviews, Behavioral interviewing techniques, Behavioral questions, Critical competencies, Non-verbal communications, Interpersonal skills, Social skills, Communication skills, Stress management, Corporate companies, Management attributes.