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Steps: Enhancing Your Competency Interview Skills
Why
Go Beyond CompQuick?
- Interviewing for competencies
takes practice. Like any complex skill, competency interviewing feels
awkward at first, but grows much more natural with use. Further training
will allow you to hone your skills in a supportive environment where
the stakes aren’t as high as a real interview.
- More training will allow
you to interview for competencies beyond the Administrative Staff
Core Competency Model.
- You can refine your approach
using competency levels, which allow you to assess how developed or
sophisticated a candidate's demonstration of each competency is.
- Learning more about the
theory and applications of competencies will improve your confidence
in using competency interviewing skills.
Learning
Options
- Competency Modeling
and Competency-Based Interviewing and Selection. This 2-day course
is offered at least once per semester. It provides a brief overview
of the applications and history of competencies, teaches participants
how to develop a customized competency model, and covers competency
interviewing skills with several opportunities for practice.
This course is recommended
for anyone who will be doing a lot of hiring using competencies. Register
on-line at http://web.mit.edu/personnel/pct.
- The Short Course.
A cadre of trained competency practitioners is available to come to
your area and present a condensed, 2-3 hour workshop on competency
interviewing skills. Completion of such a workshop provides enough
material to allow you participate in competency-based interviews with
the support and guidance of a trained interviewer. It is not sufficient
to prepare you to interview for competencies independently.
This option is often the
most appropriate for search committees where several people will be
interviewing candidates. Contact the Human Resources Practices Implementation
Resource Team (irt@mit.edu) for more
information.
- Other options (possibly
including a one-day course) are under development.
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