Civil Service Job Interview - I never do well

kayleighali

Lily1971 said:

Something else as well. I haven’t got loads of examples I can use. I know them but it’s hard to speak them in a worded answer and it’s difficult to know whether I have to say a specific date - “In 2015 I came across .........example”
or 
“I have had this issue many times before and to solve this I would...... example”

Some of my examples are not absolute specific rather they’ve occurred and I did this and that.

Are interviewers for the CS looking for absolute specifics - or that you have done such in such and this happened

hopefully you get what I am trying to convey.

Always give a specific example. You will be asked to talk about 'a time when you...' so if you just give a general description that you can do certain things then you will be marked down for mot answering the question. It doesn't matter when you did these things, you won't be asked for dates so it can be a month or a decade ago!

Remember...it's about YOU!! Make sure you talk about what you did rather than what a team did. Big yourself up as much as you can.

Good luck

Kynthia

A long answer isn't a problem as long as you are still going through your STAR points for the example and not repeating yourself. It's difficult to get a good score if your answer is too short. My interviews in the public sector are an hour long as I give detailed answers.