Interview advice for the DWP needed

Aoki

Hi,

I have an interview for Benefits Delivery Officer tommorrow. Does anyone know if the questions will be the same as the AO position?

I can't find the IRC I applied to anywhere on the site

samr_2

samr wrote: »

Has anyone done the HEO interview yet?

To answer my own question, I had mine today.
It's not much different to the other interviews but you have to do a 10min presentation on your strengths as a leader and they will ask a few questions about it. Then you get the 4 competency questions.

I should know result around end of June Not hopeful though because I struggled with one of the competencies again :rolleyes:

DMCQUEST

Hi Samr, can you give me any advice on the HEO presentation. Just got back off holiday to find I have a HEO interview Friday morning. How many strengths did you do and how did you do a presentation without powerpoint, flipchart or any other tools?

samr_2

Well I guess I didn't really do a presentation. They said i could do it standing up or sitting down so i just sat and waffled a bit. I'm not sure what they expected.

I had a list of about 10 strengths, I think, which i gave to them on a piece of paper and probably talked about 6 of them. You only get the 10mins and they're strict on the time. In that time I think it's difficult to do much more than give examples to illustrate your strengths - not time to 'present' too much.

After you've finished, they will probably follow up on a few things you say.

Good luck

DMCQUEST

Thanks for that. I know what you mean about 10 minutes, it isn't very long at all. My mind is in termoil, do I do more strengths and a little on each or a few and do depth. I don't think the jetlag is helping!!
I hope you did well. Of course you can never tell with these things.

tito_sad

shahzadi01 wrote: »

I didn't see it on the day, I saw it the day after my interview when they asked me to come in to show some more ID. I wasn't snooping, it was just staring me in the face, how could I not look??! Lol. Oooh I really hope I get it!! I think I got all the errors in the literacy test, I didn't finish the numeracy test though - was a little harder. Are you waiting to hear from them too?

can u tell me some mistakes as well??? i have the interview next week for EO and i need a high score!!!! PLEASE HELP!

omobaby99

samr wrote: »

To answer my own question, I had mine today.
It's not much different to the other interviews but you have to do a 10min presentation on your strengths as a leader and they will ask a few questions about it. Then you get the 4 competency questions.

I should know result around end of June Not hopeful though because I struggled with one of the competencies again :rolleyes:

Hi Samr

Thanks for rasing this issue.

I am having my interview for the same HEO grade next week and worried sick about the 10 minutes presentation. What type of leadership qualities/skills did you talk about ? And did you give series of examples or 1 example that demostrate your leadership qualities/skills?

Were you asked series of questions per competence, 1 question per competence or mixture of both - depending on the competence and your answers?

Has anybody else had an HEO grade interview recetly? Please let us know how it went.

Thanks

omobaby99

DMCQUEST wrote: »

Thanks for that. I know what you mean about 10 minutes, it isn't very long at all. My mind is in termoil, do I do more strengths and a little on each or a few and do depth. I don't think the jetlag is helping!!
I hope you did well. Of course you can never tell with these things.

How did your interview go? Any tip for me, I'm having mine next week Friday.

What type of leadership qualities/skills did you talk about ? And did you give series of examples or 1 example that demostrate your leadership qualities/skills?

Were you asked series of questions per competence, 1 question per competence or mixture of both - depending on the competence and your answers?

Thanks

samr_2

The competency part was 'give me an example of a time...'
One example per competency - follow up questions if they want more explanation/you haven't ticked all the boxes. These were much the same as the EO interview which you can find discussed in detail on here.

For the presentation I talked mainly about one project and used things that happened in that project to support my leadership claims. I really don't know what they wanted though so wouldn't like to advise you in any way.

DMCQUEST

Hi, sorry in the delay in coming back to you but had sign-on problems. I did a couple of competencies and used one example. In my waffle I explained that I had a lot of strengths but had chosen these 2 as KEY!. I don't think they mind whether you use one for more examples, I got the inpression that they were looking to see whether these were strengths and you could/had used them

As samr says, it is one question per competence and then a few follow-ups if you haven't ticked all the boxes. Don't worry if you get follow-up questions, they want to give everyone a chance to say what they can do.

Good luck for tomorrow.