Strength based interviews

[mojjo1]

Hi

I've got an interview in a couple of weeks for an insurance firm, and they've mentioned it'll be a strength based interview. Not heard of this before and after some googling it seems like a different style of interview.

So has anyone had any experiecne of these, from either side of the desk?

Any help appreciated

Ed

[mojjo1]

H6CJF said:

Combined with psychometrics is about as good as you can get it for most roles and those for which it is not commercially viable to set up 'full blown' assessment centres.

.... but I would say that!

OP.. I would suggest you look at the job description and work out what the core competencies are.(in the example above, the JD might include "responsible for maintaining stakeholder relations")
Then prepare some examples of how you can demonstrate your competence in response to questions that are phrased like prand's examples

Thanks for the input you lot.


I've since spoken to someone from HR to give some more info and apparently it's not a traditional 'competency' based interview, it's a relatively new-fangled thing where they ask a series of short/quick questions such as 'how are you at buying presents?'!! hmm i'm screwed then!

All know is I'm S*** at buying presents for the wife so might as well give in now!

[mojjo1]

H6CJF said:

Oh FFS... Will somebody save us from these people!

Good luck OP.. (may be worth getting ready to talk about your star sign as well...)

ETA... they need saving from themselves as well!

Edited by H6CJF on Monday 4th July 16:10

Cheers and i'll post up in a couple of weeks once done and tell all.

Ed