How to select Talents with Competency-Based Interview

I would like to share some contents from a competency-based interview workshop that I facilitated few years back where the contents were curated from different fabulous sources. To date, I can still see relevance in applying these concepts and tools.

Select the statement that best describes your top recruitment challenge:

1. I’m getting similar responses from each candidate and don’t know how to differentiate them.
2. I am not comfortable relying on interviews to make selection decisions.
3. I don’t want to make the candidate feel uncomfortable so I avoid asking some questions.
4. We’ve hired individuals who did not meet objectives and this disrupts the team(s).

Whenever I speak to HR professionals regarding talent selection, these were almost always some of the main challenges their organizations encountered most of the time.

Poor selection lead to:

What are the Selection Objectives?

• To consistently hire the best candidate available