Essential Competency Based Interview Questions & Answers:

1. Please tell me what are core competencies?

The number of academic standards that have been generated by national organizations and states can be overwhelming. Based on a study the system would need to be changed from a K-12 to a K-22 system in order to adequately teach all standards to mastery. This is certainly a recipe for failure. The Common Core creates a different starting point, focusing on the most important standards. The next step is to translate the standards into core competencies. States can be helpful in identifying a shared set of core competencies that all districts will be building upon. This is also helpful for establishing portability, a key ingredient for ensuring that students with high mobility will benefit directly from a competency-based system.

2. What are lifelong learning competencies?

The common core includes application of knowledge through high-order skills. However, there are other skills that are important to all students but particularly critical for students living in areas of concentrated poverty and/or violence. These include social-emotional and navigational skills that help them overcome trauma and engage others in helping them to manage highly complex dilemmas in their lives. In addition, workforce and career development are critical for finding jobs to support families and increased motivation through the broadened horizons. For students that are first in their families to go to college, gaining knowledge about the college application and financial aid process is imperative. States can facilitate the development of shared lifelong learning competencies, rubrics and professional development so that educators and community members can work together to support students.

3. What should you do when you are asked typical competency based questions?

You should have an idea before the interview of the experiences from your life that you could use as examples to demonstrate the key competencies of the firm to which you are applying. You are likely to have to provide at least two examples for each competency during your interview.
It is quite acceptable to ask for and to use a few moments of thinking time before answering competency questions. If necessary, simply notify your interviewer by explaining you "may need to think about this for a few moments". Once you have thought of a good example to use, continue with your answer.

4. Why do interviewers ask career motivation questions as competency based key?

Interviewers ask career motivation questions to determine why you want to work for their company and why you want to work in role to which you have applied. Career motivation questions are similar to, but not the same as commitment to career questions and are often used as part of a competency based interview.

5. Give examples of organization questions as competency based key?

Some questions that you might be asked:
★ You are allocated a new project of a type you never had before. How do you structure it? Where do you start?
★ You have a limited budget. It is not enough for all the activities you want to implement. How do you prioritize?
★ You have a huge list of things to do and not enough time for everything. What do you do?

6. Tell me about organization as competency based key?

A focus on organizational competencies is more critical to achieving team alignment, effective execution and the right allocation of scarce resources than is a focus on strategic goals.

7. What should you do for answering about problem solving as competency based key?

To answer these questions you should give examples of intelligent and useful decisions you have made to solve problems that have arisen either at work, in education or during extracurricular pursuits in the past.

8. Please give examples of problem solving as competency based key?

Examples of problem solving competency questions are:
★ How do you solve problems?
★ Give me an example of a problem you have faced in the past, either as part of a team or as an individual. How did you solve the problem?
★ What do you do when you can't solve a problem?

9. Tell me what is problem solving as competency based key?

The ability to solve problems is an analytical skill that employers look for evidence of in applicants, particularly for jobs that involve frequent problems that must be solved, such as mathematical problems or managerial problems.
The ability to solve problems can be defined as the ability to accurately assess a problem and effectively arrive at an excellent solution.

10. What do you need to do when answering about results orientation as competency based key?

You need to make it clear that you understand how important results are, that you are a competitive and results driven person and that although you may not always have achieved the desired results in the past, you certainly did aim to do so and have learnt from your mistakes.