Anyone here work for UK Border Force?

Anyone here work for UK Border Force?

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350zStee

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354 posts

170 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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Good afternoon,

I have an interview in a few weeks time for UKBA for a position as a Border Force Officer. I am looking for some hints/tips for the interview. I have looked on Google, and there isn't much info.

I have been told I may have a 30 minute presentation to make?

Any help is much appreciated.

Regards.

oldbanger

4,316 posts

237 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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Have they got a topic for the presentation, or are you free styling?

You are likely to have a competency based interview, with questions based on the key behaviours for the role. If you have the role profile and person spec, you should be able to work these out. One is probably going to be something around diversity awareness.

Competency based interviews benefit from preparing a handful of structured examples, maybe 6 or 7, which can be used to demonstrate you meet the behavioural criteria. Many could cover a couple of criteria, so it's worth identifying what they are e.g. An example might cover problem solving, team working, customer awareness and personal resilience for instance. That way you can mix them up if you need to, based on the questions you get on the day.

For any diversity question, you can cover any of the 9 strands of diversity (incl age, sex etc), it's also worth being able to list them off.

These examples benefit from being structured in the STAR format.

Situation - quickly describe the situation e.g. A problem was noted with a product
Task - describe what needed to be done or achieved e.g. We needed to identify the cause and rectify before launch in a month's time
Action - describe what You did - even if it's a team effort, don't slip into "we" when describing what you did personally
Result - what was the outcome and what have you learnt? If it didn't go that well, do you know why and did you learn from the experience?

If you can spot buzzwords or phrases in the job ad, role profile etc it's worth slipping them into your examples so that the interviewers can spot when you are demonstrating you meet their criteria

Also bear in mind that there is usually at least one HR person in an interview, so don't use jargon unless you have to. When you do, explain what it means without labouring the point.



Edited by oldbanger on Monday 21st July 23:06

Stevanos

700 posts

136 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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I think you might be there 2nd or 3rd employee if you are lucky!